There was a conscious nod to the originator of the New deal as he added: 'I am conscious as I say all this that it sounds like a prodigious amount of government intervention. It sounds like a New Deal.

Shaar's project "Soufra" - which means a table laden with food - drew the attention of Hollywood actress and social activist Susan Sarandon, whose documentary - also called "Soufra" - was screened for the first time this week in Beirut.

The complaint also claimed that Schwartz's sales offer initially cited the painting's frame, which had a Works Progress Administration plaque. It said those references disappeared after the GSA contacted Schwartz, who pulled the painting from eBay and then offered it again for three days in November 2015 for $10,50

Schwartz told the Courier-Post website ) that he will argue that the U.S. General Services Administration has no right to the "1934 Farmer" painting that he purchased several years ago and carefully restore



Nearly half a million Palestinian refugees live in mostly overcrowded, impoverished conditions, in 12 camps in Lebanon. They are descendants of families who fled or were forced to flee during fighting which created the state of Israel in 1948.
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"Beyond treating disease, the antibiotics are commonly used to avoid illnesses caused by the handling of the animals and the high levels of stress caused by the extreme conditions in which they are confined," WAP said.

The scheme unveiled by Mr Johnson today promises around Ј5billion in new money - albeit for country smaller in geographic size and population. In today's money that equates to $800billion, or around Ј650billion.

SAO PAULO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Pork products sold at retailers in Brazil contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a study funded by animal rights group World Animal Protection (WAP), providing potential evidence of overuse of the medicines in food livestock.

But the scale of what was unveiled by the Prime Minister at a college in Dudley this morning appears to be on a far lower order of magnitude to that put in place by the Democrat in the early 1930s to combat the horrors of the Great Depression.



You must pay for any treatment upfront but can then claim back the cost - typically 50 per cent, 75 per cent or sometimes up to 100 per cent - depending on the treatment and level of cover you have, up to your maximum annual limit.

Shaar, who escorted Sarandon around the camp, said she also had plans now to establish a small restaurant which could serve as "a safe place for women to come and relax mentally and physically, to come to eat, drink and express themselves more".

The schemes, sometimes known as NHS top-up plans, are a form of low cost insurance policy to help meet the cost of a range of non-urgent healthcare procedures and appointments - not just at the dentist but also at the optician and for osteopathy, physiotherapy, chiropody and a visit to a chiropractor.





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"It just goes to show you that when people pull together, you know, things get bigger and bigger and bigger - and especially the school, how fabulous to have that happen," said Sarandon as she sang English nursery rhymes with the kids.

Some historians have suggested it was the massive military spending of the Second World War, after the US belatedly entered in 1941, that finally put the Great Depression to bed and laid the foundations for the late 20th Century superpower.



The film tells the story of Shaar's efforts to set up a food truck and harness the culinary talents of the women living in the refugee camp of Burj al Barajneh, which was established in a southern suburb of Beirut in 1948 and is still home to thousands of Palestinians.

The Maharashtra Forest Department has recently been investigating the surprise seizure of the marine molluscs, which have a hard, protective outer case, and are found scattered across sea shores in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka.

The documentary premiered at the El-Gouna film festival in Egypt in 2017 and created a stir that helped Shaar's NGO, the Women's Program Association (WPA), to raise funds to build a pre-school that will create jobs and educate about 100 children.

Echoing that view, the documentary's director Thomas Morgan said the project had helped to change how Shaar and the other women viewed themselves, "like they were contributors for the first time, (that) they were able to do something".

Building new roads was one of the WPA's main outlets, along with constructing public buildings, airports and parks. Roosevelt: FDR set up the Works Progress Administration to put the unemployed back to work.