Sentences with phrase «dollars of public money because»

The Port Authority says, in essence, that a window has passed for the church to rebuild at a nearby location with tens of millions of dollars of public money because construction at a security center at ground zero couldn't wait.

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We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

De Blasio argued that he needed millions of dollars in public money for his campaign because his Democratic opponents were getting significant media coverage.

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

But it has been vilified, denied, and ridiculed by global warming advocates because it would destroy their neat little nest egg called AGW that justifies spending trillions of dollars of public money.