Word: programe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Should struggling boat dealers get the same sort of bailout from the federal government that is being doled out to the flailing auto industry? The Small Business Administration thinks so. It has just started a program that offers loans to help boat dealers to finance their inventory. But at least so far, few dealers seem to be interested...
...Tampa Bay, Fla., says many dealers are probably consumed with taking care of their customers and don't have time for the hefty application required. A dealership has to be worth less than $8.5 million to qualify. Plymale's dealership is too large to qualify, but he worries the program is too complex and cumbersome for those who do. "I have some great industry relations, and I don't know anybody that has applied for it and taken advantage of it," he says. In fact, most of the smaller dealerships who actually qualify would probably need to hire...
Although the program started almost a month ago, the SBA says it has yet to make any actual loans. "We're still somewhat in a ramp-up period," SBA press secretary Hayley Matz said last week, adding that the agency is still working with lenders to get the program rolling...
Obama himself, meanwhile, has expanded his own definition of public option to include the nonprofit model, which is not publicly run in the classic sense. In an interview Tuesday, July 28, with TIME, he said that what mattered was how the program would work, not how involved the government would be. "Obviously sort of the legal structure of it is less important than practically how can it operate," the President said. Many Democratic leaders have expressed fear that the co-op idea would have only a marginal impact on controlling private-insurance-company costs...
While many foreign universities already have Indian partnerships in place, their models of business vary. Carnegie Mellon, for instance, has for the past eight years offered a master's program at the Chennai-based Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar School of Advanced Software Engineering. Students fork over $53,000 for the 18-month program - 15% lower than if the coursework were done in the U.S. They also spend the last six months at Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus. The London School of Economics offers three-year undergrad degrees in economics, finance and management through the Indian School of Business and Finance (ISBF...