By selling their few remaining animals they were able to raise the £150 needed to secure standing room in a truck for 12 people, including Abdi's parents and her grandmother, who is frail.
By using the Internet's technology to establish secure, standing information links between companies, extranets have helped firms reach far more suppliers: all one needs is a PC, a modem and surfing software.Japan Airlines JALL) has used the Internet to post orders for in-flight materials, such as plastic cups.
David Robertson, who at 5-11, 195 is a little above average but tiny by pitching standards, was, no surprise, a field-goal kicker in high school, and would have felt secure standing behind a line of Sabathia, Pineda, Nova, Hughes and Garcia.
The Midwestern governor, who has for months been leading in the polls in Iowa, responded forcefully when questioned by a reporter about whether he intended to focus on securing his standing there at the expense of downplaying New Hampshire, where former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has been the early Republican frontrunner.
Elsewhere, Ethiopian-born writer Dinaw Mengestu secured his standing as an important emerging author with the release of his second novel, How to Read the Air, and Sierra Leone's Olumfemi Terry garnered the Caine Prize for his short story "Stickfighting Days".
They closed the pre-break schedule with a 24-point loss to the Clippers, who further secured their standing as the city's new basketball darlings, clinching the season series for the first time in 20 years.
MOCA's exhibitions have secured its standing as one of the world's best museums of post-Second World War art, but after 2000 its fund-raising did not keep pace with its costs, and the museum began drawing on its endowment to cover expenses.
"But they are doing it in a way that leaves behind the proper name, the box that classifies them as 'Hinduism.' " The debate has also secured the standing of the Hindu American Foundation as the pre-eminent voice for the country's two million Hindus, said Diana L. Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard.
Lieberman also seems to have secured his standing in the Democratic caucus until at least 2010 with a $50,000 payment to the DSCC on September 29th and a $4,000 payment to Harry Reid's campaign on September 25th.
Long in love with the sound of his own voice, Karl, who coaches the Milwaukee Bucks, said he intended nothing racially inflammatory when he called Doc Rivers, with whom he has feuded, an "anointed" coach and said Rivers's secure standing in Orlando would result in "four or five more anointments of the young Afro-American coach".
