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22nd National Hockey League All-Star Game

After governor discussions at the concurrent semi-annual meeting, Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL gave the Oakland Seals one month to come up with proper financing and improve its management to be allowed to continue play.

Acida

Adams County Industrial Development Authority (ACIDA), a municipal authority providing financing for businesses in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Altes Stadthaus, Berlin

Some financing was contributed by British mobile phone company Vodafone, which paid 100,000 marks for a giant red advertising banner that concealed the scaffolding around the tower for a year.

Baron Revelstoke

The City of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada was renamed in honour of Edward Charles Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, commemorating his role in securing the financing necessary for completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Cam Winton

Winton made a formal inquiry to the Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, requesting transparency regarding municipal financing of real estate development near the proposed Minnesota Vikings stadium; his inquiry resulted in the release of previously undisclosed information regarding a potential "Ultimate Park" development and attracted increased public scrutiny for the financing of the proposed developments.

Capital lending

This financing is done on a wide range of products, from telephones, to copiers, to $200,000 combine harvesters by Deere & Company and CNH Global, or even larger and more expensive construction equipment from manufacturers like Caterpillar and Komatsu.

CEVA rail

Upon completion a continuous railway route will run from Cornavin Station via La Praille, Bachet-de-Pesay, over the river Arve, in tunnel under the commune of Champel, and on past Eaux-Vives, underground to Annemasse, if a financing for the French part of the new infrastructure can be found.

Cliff Arnebeck

Disturbed at what he perceived as the behind the scenes manipulation of the political system, he filed a suit and successfully challenged the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's financing of the campaign in 2000 to defeat Justice Alice Robie Resnick, a Democrat.

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Walt Disney and a group of animators had been sent to South America in 1941 by the U.S. State Department as part of its Good Neighbor policy, and guaranteed financing for the resulting movie, Saludos Amigos.

Domenico Tardini

John F. Pollard, Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850–1950, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Dominique Amestoy

Domingo Amestoy (1822–1892) was a Basque sheepherder, and banker, one of the original founders to provide the financing for the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles, California, in 1871.

Edward Wharton-Tigar

Later, while still working for the SOE, Wharton-Tigar organized black-market trading in currencies, jewels and other valuables in Asia on an unprecedented scale, financing much of the Allied cause in that part of the world.

Eliot Hyman

In 1957, he helped found Seven Arts Productions and played an important role in the financing of the first horror film from Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).

Enrico Bignami

He founded La Plebe in Lodi in 1868 to promote Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas, financing the paper from his import business.

Eremas Wartoto

Ahead of the launch of Travel Air in July 2011, allegations were made by the media in PNG that parliamentarian Paul Tiensten had assisted with illegally financing the company by giving K10 million to Wartoto.

Eros Films

Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli's Warwick Films had previously had a successful financing and distribution arrangement with Columbia Pictures, however there was occasionally friction between the two organisations.

FARC files

During the diplomatic crisis caused by the 2008 unrest in Bolivia, the United States government froze the assets of several senior members of the Venezuelan Government: ex-Interior Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, senior DISIP director Henry de Jesús Rangel and military intelligence chief Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, accusing them of "arming, supporting and financing" the FARC and their "killing of innocents", according to information discovered on Reyes' computers.

Graeme Hart

In November 2009 and May 2010, Hart, through additional debt financing has combined the packaging groups he owns into Reynolds Group Holdings Limited.

Henri James Simon

In 1911 Simon provided the financing of Ludwig Borchardt's excavations at Pharao Akhenaten's city in Amarna, whereafter large parts of the found artefacts including the busts of Nefertiti and Tiye passed into his ownership, according to a – still disputed – 1913 partition treaty with the Egyptian Département des antiquités under Gaston Maspero.

Herbert Yates

Yates formed Republic in 1935 by arranging for the merger of several smaller production companies with his Consolidated Film Industries, which was providing film processing and financing for many studios in Hollywood.

High Rise

However, financing fell through and Roeg and Thomas did Bad Timing instead, and Thomas later went on to adapt Ballard's Crash for the screen with director David Cronenberg.

Horde Zla

The Horde Zla became the fastest growing youth organisation in the city of Sarajevo, Sarajevo Canton, financing itself through a very well organised, vertically integrated marketing system, as well as a very rigid members policy.

Hprints

May 2007 the Nordic funding agency for libraries, Nordbib, granted the hprints project 287,000 DKK as part of its financing programme Work Package 2: Focus area on Content and Accessibility.

Human Microbiome Project

The project also is financing deep sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA sequences amplified by polymerase chain reaction from human subjects.

Jake T. Austin

In 2006, Austin landed the lead role of Angel Macias in his first live-action feature film, The Perfect Game based on a true story about the first non-U.S. team to win the 1957 Little League World Series, although the film wouldn't be released in the United States until more than three years after filming was completed, due to post-production financing difficulties.

Joanne Gardner

A local businessman, Arthur Tate (Terry O'Sullivan), was interested in financing the inn when Joanne experienced difficulties.

Keith Ewing

(with Samuel Issacharoff) Party Funding And Campaign Financing in International Perspective (2006) Columbia-London Law

Lease purchase contract

These contracts are commonly used where a buyer wants to purchase a home, but due to credit issues would not qualify for a conventional mortgage and does not wish to, or would not qualify, for FHA or VA financing.

Lopatcong Township, New Jersey

Lopatcong Township was featured in a 2003 article in The New York Times which discussed problems of public school financing in suburban communities and various strategies communities have adopted to deal with the problem.

Lynne Woolstencroft

Her tenure as mayor was dominated by the RIM Park scandal, involving the financing of RIM Park with a loan from MFP Financial Services of Mississauga, a deal which had occurred before her time as mayor but which she had supported as a councillor.

Madeleine West

It was announced in late 2013 that she would be reprising her role of Danielle McGuire in the sequel/spin-off series Fat Tony & Co. which will not be placed under the Underbelly franchise (due to financing reasons) and will focus on the rise and fall of Tony Mokbel, who also featured in the original series, played by Robert Mammone.

MES Institute of Technology and Management

MES Institute of Technology and Management (MESITAM) is a self financing engineering college under Kerala University, established in 2009 under the management of Muslim Educational Society.

Michael John O'Brien

He became involved in ice hockey while living in Renfrew financing several ice hockey teams run by his son Ambrose O'Brien, including teams in Cobalt, Haileybury, Montreal and Renfrew, which all played in the founding season of the National Hockey Association.

Morrison County, Minnesota

A group of investors from Louisville, Kentucky, led by M. M. Williams, provided the financing for this dam.

Narayana Gowda

After 6 years, he returned to Bangalore to join the South India Computer Ltd, a hardware assembly company in Koramangala, and from there moved to the Vysya Bank and from there to start Pushpa Garments and put his hand into financing and the Srimata Audio Cassette company.

Oslo Metro rolling stock

In 1996, the work to establish a financing package for new investments in public transport in Akershus and Oslo started.

PatchWerk Recording Studios

Founded in 1993 as a record label in Carson, California, by former Atlanta Falcons offensive tackle Bob Whitfield, after financing studio time to record a demo for his high school friend and aspiring rapper Ras Kass, Bob hired his college friend and entrepreneur B.J. Kerr, and together they released Ras Kass first single "Remain AnonymouS".

Prime brokerage

The financing and lending spreads, which are charged in basis points on the value of client loans (debit balances), client deposits (credit balances), client short sales (short balances), and synthetic financing products such as swaps and CFDs (Contract for difference), make up the vast majority of prime brokerage revenue.

Second Temple period

Construction of the Second Temple was completed under the leadership of the last three Jewish Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi with Persian approval and financing.

South Forty-Foot Drain

In order to make the financing of the phase more viable, it was split into two halves, with phase 2a covering the section from Donington to Surfleet Seas End on the River Glen, and phase 2b covering from there onwards.

Stony Brook Sports Complex

The design stage was completed by the architectural firm Populous (formerly HOK Sport), later on it was announced that the project was to be placed on hold until financing can be gathered in the present economic conditions.

Suffield, Alberta

Established by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1884, Suffield was named after Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield who married in 1854, Cecilia Annetta, the sister of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, who assisted in financing the railway.

Sunset Song

Soon after directing The House of Mirth in 2000, English filmmaker Terence Davies and producer Bob Last planned their own adaptation of the book but had difficulty securing financing.

Taksim Square massacre

The Hotel International, from which the shots were fired, belonged to ITT Corporation, which had already been involved in financing the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile and was on good terms with the CIA.

Thomas V. Chema

In 1990, he was appointed Executive Director of the Gateway Economic Development Corporation and was responsible for overseeing the public-private partnership that led to the financing and construction of Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

Une vie meilleure

But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal to pitch in with extra money.

University of Engineering Science and Technology, Sialkot

The Government of Pakistan (not taking any interest till 2013) through Higher Education Commission of Pakistan was financing and building the campus, while the Royal Institute of Technology would have been responsible for technical and human support such as course content, university management, human resource development and quality control.

Villa Welgelegen

In 1800 Henry Hope became influential together with his London friend Francis Baring in financing the Louisiana Purchase.

Zaarly

The company has secured $14.1M in Series A financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sands Capital Ventures, following a $1M angel investment.


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