Earmarks are lawmaker-directed spending items, often to finance local projects favored by a member of Congress.
The Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a group of 1,500 business owners based in Brooklyn Heights, was soliciting medical supplies, dried food items and money to finance relief efforts in St. Kitts, where 130 m.p.h.
A report from the director of national intelligence last September warned that high demand for ivory had pushed the price so high the illegal items were being used to finance terror operations, and were corrupting wildlife officials in east, central and southern Africa.
With the prospect of losing its home, the Arts Club opted to sell one of the most valuable items in its collection to finance the purchase of new land.
This has raised concern among museum experts, who say selling items from a collection to finance projects beyond adding to that collection is a violation of museum ethics.
4. Allow flexibility in the re-allocation of budget items to support the implementation of School Improvement Plans (SIPs) until the government is able to finance these items through the budget process in consultation and coordination between the Ministry of Education and UNICEF at the country and regional levels.
Those who took their first step late, overstretched themselves to buy property, or presumed that remortgaging to finance other items was a safe bet, now watch tiny movements in the property market with terror.
On one hand, there is a risk of customers using the service irresponsibly to finance nonessential items that they can't afford.
They tend to use private label cards to finance bigger-ticket items like appliances and jewelry, experts said.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's office this week detailed a little-known fund that it uses to finance council member items and outlined steps to tighten control over that process.
