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The proprietor of the entertainment Web site Derober.com admits he made up a story about Donald Trump leaving a $10,000 tip for a California waiter. Trump earlier denied the report, which was picked up by numerous news and gossip outlets, and told The New York Post: This was done by the stupid restaurant to get publicity. ... It's not my signature. Contacted by phone by The Los Angeles Times, D...

By Ken Ward Jr. kward@wvgazette.com Sen. Robert C. Byrd sought $10 million in new money Thursday so that federal regulators can complete required inspections of underground coal mines in Southern West Virginia. The West Virginia Democrat proposed to add the funding to a budget bill for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. Byrd's Senate Appropriations Committee already has proposed ad...

By David Kohn, The Baltimore Sun Dec. 29--The Johns Hopkins University has received $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a landmark study on trachoma, a bacterial eye disease that afflicts 84 million people around the world every year and blinds about 4 million. The award is one of the largest ever to support trachoma research. "This will be a huge help for understanding...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -What would Florida's communities be like without their local parks? Miami without Curtis Park? Tampa without the Ribbon of Green Riverwalk? Tallahassee without the Miccosukee Canopy Road Greenway? Or Port St. Lucie without Veterans Park? The fact is, all these parks exist in whole or in part due to funding provided by the state's Florida Foreve...

By Cathy Woodruff, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jan. 31--RENSSELAER -- A fourth track dropped from construction plans for Rensselaer Rail Station because of rising costs is back -- with a $10 million price tag and hopes it will reduce delays for Amtrak passengers. The Capital District Transportation Authority board approved a contract Wednesday with the state Department of Transportation for the pr...

With demand for hospital beds in the region set to double by 2025, Arabian Gulf countries are rushing to meet the unprecedented challenge with a near $10 billion hospital building programme, say industry experts. The programme which does not include the budgets for required medical equipment is led by Saudi Arabia with dozens of public and private sector hospital and clinic projects worth a tot...

According to Al-Sharq newspaper (November 28, 2007), a recently released survey conducted by IIR Middle East, organizers of the Arab Health Exhibition, shows that the Arabian Gulf region needs to invest $10 billion in building new hospitals. The total number of the available hospital beds in the region is expected to double by 2025. Originally published by Info-Prod Strategic Business Informati...

By Greg Farrell NEW YORK -- New Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit on Tuesday promised better results at his beleaguered bank after a financial report left investors wondering if the worst is over. The nation's biggest bank announced a $10 billion fourthquarter loss, primarily because of an $18 billion write-down of assets related to subprime mortgages. The size of the writedown dwarfed Citigroup's Oc...

By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Dec. 21--The Everglades Skyway, despite backing from environmentalists and business boosters, won't be built anytime soon. Or maybe ever, if a new $1.6 billion federal estimate for the 11-mile span is close to reality. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with marching orders from Congress to control ballooning Everglades restoration costs and complete a job more...

By Matthew D. Laplante, The Salt Lake Tribune Dec. 12--A Salt Lake City-based charity will donate $1.5 million to Utah's Hogle Zoo with the construction of an animal health center. The new facility, which will be named in honor of ALSAM Foundation founder L.S. Skaggs, will include expanded diagnostic and treatment areas, updated and upgraded surgical and quarantine elements, and office space fo...

By Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Dec. 22--Six Sedgwick County nonprofits will receive nearly $1.9 million in federal grant funding to support their housing and support service programs that serve the homeless. The grants are part of a record $1.5 billion that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday that it had awarded nationwide. The Sedgwick County organi...

By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Dec. 2--The effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita continue to reverberate. Omaha's Metropolitan Utilities District on Friday wrote off $1.7 million in delinquent natural gas bills from 2005, when gas prices spiked after the hurricanes hit the Gulf of Mexico. That's the largest write-off in the district's history in terms of total dollars and a 33 perc...

By HOYLE, Jon SIX MONTHS after baulking at investing in a faster broadband network, Telecom has announced it will spend $1.4 billion delivering quicker broadband to every New Zealand town and city. Once submissions had been processed and Telecom's proposal researched, Telecom would be legally locked into its pledge, Communications Minister David Cunliffe said. "So for the cynics out there who s...

By HOYLE, Jon Six months after balking at investing in a faster broadband network, Telecom has announced it will spend $1.4 billion delivering quicker broadband to every New Zealand town and city. Minister of Communications David Cunliffe said once submissions have been processed and Telecom's proposal researched, Telecom will be legally locked into its pledge. "So, for the cynics out there who...

According to Al-Sharq newspaper (November 28, 2007), a recently released survey conducted by IIR Middle East, organizers of the Arab Health Exhibition, ranked the State of Qatar in the 2nd position in the Arabian Gulf region, after Saudi Arabia, in terms of its medical sector investments volume. Qatar has allocated $1.5 billion for building new hospitals. Originally published by Info-Prod Strat...

By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Dec. 2--Even after years of an ambitious construction schedule, about half of Tacoma's 56 schools will need modernization or replacement between 2010 and 2030 or so, officials say. The price tag? $1.5 billion. That's in addition to about $910 million already spent or committed since 1984, Tacoma School District director of planning and constructi...

By Lori Stahl, The Dallas Morning News Feb. 1--The Dallas school district should call a bond election for $1.3 billion because a new poll has found that voters won't support larger packages under consideration, school trustees were told Thursday. A task force that has been studying the district's facility needs for 10 months had been considering several proposals ranging up to $2.65 billion. No...

Dubai Ports World (DP) took over on Saturday 9/2/2008 a controlling stake of the Ain Al-Sukhna Port Development Company (SPDC) which was awarded in 1999 a concession deal to operate the first marina in the port. The Red Sea Port Authority on behalf of the Transport Ministry approved the deal. Under the deal, DP World will carry out investments of 1.3 billion dollars into the port within the com...

By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jan. 4--COBLESKILL -- SUNY Cobleskill has dreams of turning cow manure into electricity, and it's getting a lot closer to reality after Congress approved $1.3 million for the college's new bio-energy project. That brings the amount of federal funding the Schoharie County college has attracted for a small yet innovative gasification plant -- which would...

By Amanda Cuda, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Jan. 3--Hoping to help children with mental health problems, the Connecticut Health Foundation has awarded roughly $1.3 million in grant money to 11 community organizations statewide. The money is intended to help the agencies connect with police, school and other government systems to draft a plan that would identify children with mental health issu...