"Once you're past 30 and haven't died of consumption, they start awarding these things for staying alive".
North Virginia Community College has started awarding credits for introductory college courses provided for around $100 by Straighter Line, a for-profit online-education firm.
Two years ago, when it started awarding such licences, Nigeria had fewer than 500,000 telephone links, almost all land-lines, only some of which worked.
If the government starts awarding funds to the lowest bidder, it would reduce the ability of surgical suppliers to stay in business.
Teams are about to start awarding free agents lavish contracts that, in at least two instances, will almost certainly top $100 million.
Weller, perhaps portentously, told the Guardian earlier this year: "Once you're past 30 and haven't died of consumption, they start awarding you these things for staying alive".
Along the way, the foundation switched gears again and started awarding grants for education and early childhood development, which remain its focus.
Even the Actors Studio recently started awarding a master's, to provide students with what Ms. Parsons describes as "the only entree now to getting work".
Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament, started awarding women the same amount of prize money as men in 2007, and the prize money for the winner of La Course is equivalent to that for a stage winner in Le Tour.
And if the city were to get annual returns of 10 percent, like Yale's — and that could be a pipe dream — the mayor might even be able to start awarding large tax cuts.
