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...companies, which are required to give 3% of their local budgets to the nddc, and by Nigeria's federal government, the Commission has about $235 million to spend every year. "That is peanuts compared to the problems of the area," says the nddc's head of corporate affairs, Anietie Usen. Projects are often delayed, he says, because the federal government is slow to cough up its share. Grandiose announcements, such as the unveiling by Obasanjo last month of plans to construct a $1.8 billion highway through the region and create 20,000 new jobs in the military, police and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria's Deadly Days | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

Double Indemnity. In Usen, Germany, when Heinrich Bormann tried to hang himself from a branch overhanging a creek, the branch broke and he was drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...weights and ages of the Wesleyan College crew are as follows: H. Sewell, captain, '76, age 21, weight 155 lbs., height 5.9 1/2; W. W. Van usen, '78, age 22, weight 152 lbs., height 5.8 1/2; E. L. Mead, '78, age 20, weight 153 lbs., height 5.8 1/4; F. G. Holcomb, '76, age 23, weight 149 lbs., height 5.10; W. E. Ward, '77, age 22, weight 145 lbs., height 5.8; B. A. Rich, bow, '78, age 21, weight 150 lbs., height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

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