It also gives potential lenders of its project financing package encouragement that Hoku will be in a better position to repay loan.

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Still, while Hoku shares are up to previous levels, Stone believes the real driver for the stock will come when the project financing package is finally signed.

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The Oregonian said New York was offering "tens of millions" of dollars to win Project Azalea, a tax package Oregon probably couldn't match.

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The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.

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European leaders have staked their credibility on the euro succeeding as a political project, so they are reluctantly preparing the new rescue package as a last resort to prevent the eurozone's first sovereign default.

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"I hope we can work together to, frankly, be a real stimulus package and not just a spending package that has every cat and dog and pet project that people have, " he said.

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Yet support by the users is indeed vital if the huge project, however technically successful, is not to become a glossy package with little inside.

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The financing package that the Cardinals put together to fund the first phase of its project reflects the tough economic climate that such projects face even as credit has become more accessible recently for real estate with proven rent streams.

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Ordinary Kuwaitis are wary not only of further dithering over such things as a planned bail-out package for financial institutions hit by the global recession and an oft-delayed mega-project to develop new oilfields.

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