Mark Emmert, the N.C.A.A. president, did come out in favor of increasing grants-in-aid by $2,000, but as Dan Wetzel writes on Yahoo.com, this scene is headed for a bigger confrontation.
During the 1970s, severe budget constraints challenged the university's physical development; but, in the 1980s, the university received increased grants for research in the social and physical sciences.
Still another option would be to use the added revenue to increase grants for road maintenance in cities and states.
Owners are making record profits, they said, because inflation is low, rent collections are up and the rent increases granted in recent years have been greater than needed.
In fact, this year's increases -- 3percentt for one-year leases and 5percentt for two-year leases -- fall within one or two percentage points of the increases that landlords have received over the last seven years and are equal to increases granted in the two years before the mayor took office.
Nearly all the traditional carnival funders have agreed to increase their grants in 2003.
"It's a very good idea to increase Pell Grants in the stimulus," said Terry Hartle, a senior vice president for public affairs at the American Council on Education, which represents colleges and universities.
"Over the past five years Tate has increased its self-generated income by 15%, compared to the 5% increase in grant-in-aid".
After discussions with major investors - which include Legal & General, BlackRock and Axa - Moss, who is under growing pressure to improve the insurer's performance, decided not to accept the increase granted to him in March, which would have taken his basic salary above the £1m mark from £960,000.
Moreover, it would be prudent to build up reserves in excess of the minimum level because state finances are likely to be strained in the next downturn because the new federal welfare law, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, does not increase state block grants in a downturn.
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The World Bank is considering increasing cash grants for the poor in the Philippines after the island nation was hit by a devastating typhoon at the weekend.
