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stanley flask a high percentage of government-backed loans went to recipients who appeared to be unqualified, some of them unaware they were receiving terrorism-recovery money, investigators report.The Small Business Administration s inspector general said Wednesday that agency officials were at fault for telling lenders in the program that their determinations would not be questioned.The inspector general concluded that only nine loan recipients in the 59 cases sampled appeared to be qualified for disaster loans.Lenders who handed out billions of dollars in loans failed, 85 percent of the time, to document that recipients were
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stanley cup BA s Supplementary Terrorist Activity Relief program. The report found:Only two of 42 borrowers interviewed were aware they had obtained a STAR loan.In cases where eligibility could not be established, 25 of 34 borrowers interviewed said they were not adversely affected by the terrorist attacks.Thirty-six of 42 borrowers questioned said they were not asked, or could not recall if they were asked, about the impact of the attacks on their businesses.The AP found that terrorism recovery loans went to a South Dakota radio station, a Virgin Islands perfume shop, a Utah dog boutique a Vqrb Panel: Chinese Spies Stealing U.S. Secrets
Last April, US Geological Survey researchers collared four female polar bears north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Those collars were outfitted with small video cameras, and the USGS has just released the first videos they collected. They show a female eating, swimming, and socializing with a potential mate. Despite the bear unrepentent shaky-cam approach to filmmaking, it an absolute privilege to see the first ever point of view footage of a polar be
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