Mr Osborne has insisted that only projects that offer a good economic return will be supported.
However, the CBO only projects an increase in real, or after-inflation, interest rates to 3.1% from a current 1.8%.
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As I write, the smaller of the two accredited-only projects is 96% funded, but the large project is only 15% funded.
Take U.S. foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa in 2002, counting only projects that could build a future for the poor (infrastructure and education, for example), and you get all of 6 cents per capita.
President Obama's drilling moratorium officially includes only projects in more than 500 feet of water, but the U.S. Minerals Management Service, a division of the Interior Department that regulates deepwater drilling, has held up shallow-water permits, too, until it can review safety standards.
Of the 14 he looked at, only five projects were worth pursuing, in his view.
That means only large projects have much chance of working out what is going on.
One developer said smaller builders would be worst hit and said the rules should apply to only larger projects.
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Currently, StartX only accepts projects that have at least one Stanford-affiliated founder.
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The new standards will be based only on projects that can be certified, including flexible schemes agreed under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
The site itself appears to be both a gambit, and very ambitious, as the name suggests, because browsing the page, there are only seven projects online.
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It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
Only a few projects were financed at an installation that been "closing since 1996, " the report said.
Only half the projects would have actually gone toward relieving the Atlanta commute, the fourth-worst in the nation.
IDC, a market researcher, projects only 2% growth for the next two years.
The history of the past two centuries offers an answer: only if China projects naval power into the Pacific.
Contracts like Huawei's are recognized as revenue only after the projects are completed.
One option, pioneered in Uganda, is to set up a specific, publicly monitored, fund that spends the savings from debt relief only on desirable projects.
Ultimately, shifting between your e-mail and your work projects only a few times a day, instead of dozens, makes you more efficient and focused and minimizes brain strain.
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Sakhalin Energy has the dubious distinction of being the only big energy project in Russia not to involve a Russian firm, and the two big Sakhalin projects are the only exceptions to Gazprom's gas-export monopoly.
Investors want to commit large amounts of capital to clean energy projects because only with massive scale comes true competitive feasibility.
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UN's drug-control agency admits that crop-substitution projects cover only a few areas.
Only 44% of projects launched have managed to hit their fundraising goal.
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Having complete confidence in his own judgment, he has complete confidence in the future, and only long-range projects can hold his interest.
And then there are the Chinese companies that are not only offering financing for projects but are straight off giving the Kazakhs a 50% stake.
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Some now argue that such projects provide only a temporary boost.
But even with commitments from three more projects, only 1.8 million square feet of the potential 10 million square feet will be occupied by late 2005.
The entrepreneurs then embark on ambitious, long-gestation investment projects, only to discover that the men and materials they require are otherwise engaged in the production of more immediate gratifications.
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