According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

My fund-raising focus also gave me new motivation to exercise regularly.

She chose to sell a few larger objects that were less often used when we promised to put the money into her school fund our kindergarten daughter is serious about becoming a doctor.

Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser.

While these are small in significant amounts, at the end of the year, you will have enough for an emergency fund, family celebration or holiday.

Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.

Many schools compete for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds.

Alternative forms of energy- bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are certainly being funded and developed, and will play a growingrolein the world's energy supply.

For example, but for the savings and loan debacle, there might be funds available to reduce the national debt and pay for education.

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.

But I'd rather spend my college days funding out how children learn.

In 1944, Congress passed a bill to upgrade the system, but did not fund the plan right away.

Procter and Gamble has a Corporate Innovation Fund which offers big rewards for high-risk ideas that succeed.

The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

Securing these funds, and establishing who is responsible for raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.

I now put 20 dollars a week into my vacation fund and another 20 into retirement savings, she says, Those mean more to me than lunch.

When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms, says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World Wide Fund for Nature.

Other funding agencies, public and private, are moving in a similar direction.

The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth.

Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse

Recently, the UK National Stem Cell Network warned the UK could lose its place among the world leaders in stem cell research unless adequate funding and legislation could be assured.

In the UK, research is concentrated: less than 25% of universities receive 75% of the research funding

fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions

Generously share their facilities with those short of funds.

The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.

Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands\, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, \but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.

Mironov say about the funding for their research

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer.

\When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms,\ says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World wide Fund for Nature.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

Martin Sommerkorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity the World wildlife Fund.

The trick is to direct these funds better.

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

They do not fund peer-reviewed research.

Curbs on business - method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual- fund as

ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.

Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .

Some growth stems from a commitment by governments and farsighted businesses to fund cleaner energy sources.

The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.

While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then.