fund是什么意思？

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.