With the lame-duck Congress winding down and a $5.7 billion gap in financing looming for next year's Pell grants — and a further $8 billion gap for the following year — there is growing uncertainty about the future of the grants, the nation's most significant financial-aid program for college students.
Particular emphasis was placed upon identifying the nature of the financial problem and the mental capacity of the individual, which were regarded as the two most significant cues in aiding detection of financial abuse.
The most significant factor that has aided participants in their persistence and progression in the medical program is their key goal of becoming medical doctors (both the humanitarian side of it and the prestige that comes with the profession).
Honduras, the country most affected by the hurricane, received significant aid for the millions impacted by the hurricane.
Bilateral donors and international NGOs are the most significant contributors to the formal health care system but aid is uncoordinated, without common long-term agendas.
Private Manning's lawyer, David E. Coombs, who has largely declined to talk to the news media, said on Twitter that "aiding the enemy" was the "most significant additional charge".
Perhaps most significant, Mr. Thurnau suggested, was the State Legislature's building aid incentive that went into effect four years ago, which prompted many school districts to begin construction projects.
In many ways, says Stewart, the 1980s were the most "significant period for protest songs" since the 1960s; Band Aid's 1984 Ethiopian famine appeal anthem, Do They Know It's Christmas?
A deal which will see disaster victims being given cash instead of vouchers or food, and which requires aid agencies to be more transparent and efficient in the way they spend money, is generally seen as the most significant step forward at the UN's first ever aid summit this week.
In December, Harvard — under Congressional pressure, like other wealthy colleges, to spend more of its endowment — introduced a policy under which most families making less than $180,000 a year would receive significant aid.
