One of his practices was helping out financially strapped college students with their tuition.Following their father's death, John S. and James L. Knight created the Knight Memorial Education Fund in 1940 to continue the mission of helping poor Akron college students pay for college.…
In 1976, the team was purchased by media magnate Ted Turner, owner of superstation WTBS, as a means to keep the team (and one of his main programming staples) in Atlanta.The financially strapped Turner used money already paid to the team for their broadcast rights as a down-payment.…
Due to a teachers' strike, school programming did not resume as scheduled in September 1978.The financially strapped Board of Education finally took WBOE off the air the next month.WBOE's final day of broadcasting was October 7, 1978.…
The defense lawyers further attempt to discredit Kang by bringing to light his past misdeeds, including the affair with his former student who committed suicide.Compounding all, the financially strapped parents agree to remain silent about the incident in exchange for money.In the end, the three accused are sentenced to probation and set free to return to the school.…
On November 13, 2003, shortly before leaving office, Davis officially brought the energy crisis to an end by issuing a proclamation ending the state of emergency he declared on January 17, 2001.The state of emergency allowed the state to buy electricity for the financially strapped utility companies.The emergency authority allowed Davis to order the California Energy Commission to streamline the application process for new power plants.…
Trumbull believed that the financially strapped studio simply got cold feet about putting up the rest of the money to complete Brainstorm.
The club was in rough shape, financially strapped and competing in the second-tier level.However, not long after he joined, the club bounced back up to the top league and started producing young talent that was sold directly to foreign teams, thus bypassing the usual route of first joining one of the two big Serbian clubs (Red Star or FK Partizan) before going abroad.…
The Great Depression caused the complex to become financially strapped.The business was reorganized as a community hospital in 1939, and renamed Hillcrest Hospital.…
Hardworking rural farmers were resistant to paying for the unemployed city people and their new "Right to Work" National Workshops.The taxes were widely disobeyed in the rural areas and, thus, the government remained very financially strapped for cash.Popular uncertainty about the liberal foundations of the provisional government became apparent in the 23 April 1848 elections.…
He helped finance Marsden Hartley's 1912 trip to Europe, which resulted in a major phase of Hartley's career.He recommended to his own dealer financially strapped artists whose talent he believed in, like Rockwell Kent.…
As a member of the LDS Church, Dutcher served a two-year mission in Mexico.Dutcher lived in his car during high school and was so financially strapped while attending college that he frequently had to choose between eating and going to the movies.Because of his love of film, he normally went to the movies.…
A year later, only days before we attended the first ever 'Sierra Summit' in San Francisco, Hurricane Katrina ripped the Gulf Coast apart, and environmental organizations of all types lost donations as Americans redirected their giving to rescue and recovery organizations.Everyone who was committed to environmental causes was financially strapped.In 2004-2005, our president still was not acknowledging the existence of Global Warming.…
In 1520 the work was abruptly cancelled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made.
The majority of players are expatriate and look to cricket to provide a link back to their homes: Often teams are composed of one ethnic or national background - and linked to local social clubs.Since the players are mostly politically weak and financially strapped immigrants, the sport lacks consistent central funding.Combine these factors with the politics and mis-management of the USACA, and the result is that most facilities are poor; there are no turf wickets (most cricket is played on coconut matting), the outfields are often shared with active soccer games, and the facilities are rudimentary.…
He felt direct government relief payments would weaken moral character, undermine self-respect and discourage personal initiative.However, he also faced the reality that his financially strapped government could not afford to participate fully in federal relief programs that required matching contributions from the provinces.The Antigonish Movement emerged offering a "middle way" to helping people distressed hit by the depression through cooperative ventures under popular control.…
During that time, she continued to paint and occasionally wrote for Scribner's Monthly.Though she was financially strapped, she kept up appearances during the Gilded Age by selling her father's paintings or her reproductions of them.…
Financially strapped by the costs of challenging the election, Taylor became an insurance executive and practiced law.Shortly after arriving in Indiana, his wife died.…
The extra space was intended for lease, but Boyce did not see the need for additional income at the time.Now more financially strapped, Boyce commissioned the construction of the rest of his namesake building in 1921, completed two years later.…
Since Red Beard required Mifune to grow a natural beard -- one he had to keep for the entirety of the film's two years of shooting -- he was unable to act in any other films during the production.This put Mifune and his financially strapped production company deeply into debt, creating friction between him and Kurosawa.Although Red Beard played to packed houses in Japan and Europe, which helped Mifune recoup some of his losses, the ensuing years held varying outcomes for both Mifune and Kurosawa.…
To keep the Netherlands under control required an extensive occupation force, and Spain was still financially strapped since the 1576 bankruptcy.In 1584, William the Silent was assassinated by a half-deranged Catholic, and the death of the popular Dutch resistance leader was expected to bring an end to the war; it did not.…
