Ejemplos de uso de FFP
1. Groupe Taittinger said shareholders representing 65 percent of the company‘s capital had agreed to sell their stakes to Starwood for 336.24 euros ($410) per share –– valuing the company at 1.17 billion euros ($1.42 billion). Under the deal, Starwood is buying 35 percent of Groupe Taittinger from family members and the remainder from the holding companies CNAP and FFP.
2. For scientists working with federal grant money, that issue got settled five years ago when the Office of Research Integrity –– part of the Department of Health and Human Services –– drafted a formal definition÷ "fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing or reviewing research, or in reporting research results." About a dozen federally funded scientists a year are found to have breached that "FFP" standard –– a tiny fraction of the scientific workforce –– and punishment generally involves a ban on further federal grants.
3. According to Pierson, the new emergency assistance includes 4,320 metric tons (MT) of food from USAID‘s Food for Peace (FFP) office, valued at $2.' million. This food package comprises 2,000 MT of sorghum, 210 MT of lentils, 700 MT of yellow split peas, 600 MT of rice and 810 MT of vegetable oil provided by his agency. Some 1,600 MT of this food will arrive from neighboring countries and will be distributed to needy people in Niger in a matter of days. The rest will follow shortly from ports in the United States.
4. In addition to this approximately $7 million of emergency assistance, USAID‘s FFP office has provided 8,350 MT of food assistance in 2005, valued at more than $4.6 million, through four American NGOs (Africare, CARE, CRS, and Helen Keller International). Of this amount, 1,250 MT of rice was sold and the proceeds were used for agricultural production, income generation, and health and nutrition activities in affected communities. The remaining food (6,500 MT of bulgur wheat and 600 MT of vegetable oil) was or is being distributed to food–insecure populations under USAID‘s Food for Work program, the release said.