The program targets commercial paper with three-month terms, favored by corporate treasurers.
Midwest Fertilizer Corp. officials estimate they shaved off up to two percentage points, to about 5% from about 7%, borrowing through the disaster-bond program compared with typical commercial financing.
Among the new measures: sponsoring more student pilots for commercial-aviation training and extending the fighter-pilot conversion program from three weeks to six months.
He says the program could be expanded over time to include commercial mortgage-backed securities, certain residential mortgage-backed securities and other assets.
The Fed offered to expand its emergency lending program to help commercial banks finance the purchase of asset-backed securities from the funds.
Zimbabwe's violent land-reform program drove most of the country's white commercial farmers off their land.
Allowing significant sharing between the navy program and the commercial world would give us an immediate, multi-lap advantage over all other competitors in a world wide market for commercial shipping using nuclear instead of diesel.
James Kilpatrick, president of a local commercial real-estate firm, was so keen to attend Wharton's executive program that three years ago the 36-year-old moved to downtown San Francisco from the East Bay to be closer to campus and its extracurricular activities.
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After the markets closed Monday, Fitch Ratings downgraded AIG's long-term and short-term issuer default rating, as well as its senior unsecured debt and commercial paper program ratings.
Ad Hop's commercial-skipping powers only kick in at 1 a.m. the day after the original program airs.
Non-transferability: According to General Dynamics, the FS-X program transfers neither technology nor methodology especially useful to a Japanese competitor in the commercial aerospace market.
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Independent auditors found that Lockheed has only achieved a 7% operating margin on the program to date, which is far below the kind of returns that commercial companies typically generate on cutting-edge technology work.
Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.
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