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  • Over a year after the earthquake, and almost a century after political instability and extreme poverty, the most popular words surrounding Haiti continue to be the latest celebrity visit ahem, Charlie Sheen, orphanage rebuilding or strings-attached aid packages.

    Nicole Skibola: Sovereignty, Stability and Sweet Micky: What is Going on in Haiti? Nicole Skibola 2011

  • Over a year after the earthquake, and almost a century after political instability and extreme poverty, the most popular words surrounding Haiti continue to be the latest celebrity visit ahem, Charlie Sheen, orphanage rebuilding or strings-attached aid packages.

    Nicole Skibola: Sovereignty, Stability and Sweet Micky: What is Going on in Haiti? Nicole Skibola 2011

  • Over a year after the earthquake, and almost a century after political instability and extreme poverty, the most popular words surrounding Haiti continue to be the latest celebrity visit ahem, Charlie Sheen, orphanage rebuilding or strings-attached aid packages.

    Nicole Skibola: Sovereignty, Stability and Sweet Micky: What is Going on in Haiti? Nicole Skibola 2011

  • It would provide strings-attached financial aid to debt-burdened member governments, with disbursements conditioned on the recipient country meeting fiscal targets, and so would greatly resolve the moral-hazard conundrum that dogs the Greece bailout debate.

    With EMF, Europe Seeks To Reinvent The Wheel Michael Casey 2010

  • It would provide strings-attached financial aid to debt-burdened member governments, with disbursements conditioned on the recipient country meeting fiscal targets, and so would greatly resolve the moral-hazard conundrum that dogs the Greece bailout debate.

    With EMF, Europe Seeks To Reinvent The Wheel Michael Casey 2010

  • It would provide strings-attached financial aid to debt-burdened member governments, with disbursements conditioned on the recipient country meeting fiscal targets, and so would greatly resolve the moral-hazard conundrum that dogs the Greece bailout debate.

    With EMF, Europe Seeks To Reinvent The Wheel Michael Casey 2010

  • Meanwhile, a few folks are already grumbling about the strings-attached deal over at the Good Morning Silicon Valley and Digital Daily blogs.

    Apple's iPhone credit carries a few strings 2007

  • One dangerous answer to this is: Traditional public schools will have that "flexibility" when they are able to break union-negotiated teacher protections - to be union-free - and when they submit to the meddling of Gates, Broad, and the other billionaires at the Business Roundtable when they dangle their strings-attached money.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • One dangerous answer to this is: Traditional public schools will have that "flexibility" when they are able to break union-negotiated teacher protections - to be union-free - and when they submit to the meddling of Gates, Broad, and the other billionaires at the Business Roundtable when they dangle their strings-attached money.

    On the Growing Outcry Against KIPP, Charters, and the Oligarchs Jim Horn 2009

  • If the company is bargaining in good faith and is serious about fulfilling its promise to keep jobs here, then it should jump at the incentives, regardless of the strings attached; if the company isn't bargaining in good faith and was planning to take taxpayer money and cut the jobs anyway, then it will walk away from the strings-attached incentives, and taxpayers will save money that would have been wasted.

    David Sirota: Stopping the Great American Job Scam In Denver 2009

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