insula

1. In Roman town planning, a block of buildings surrounded by streets.

2. A Roman apartment house occupying such a block.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Insula

a multistoried ancient Roman dwelling usually constructed of brick, with rooms or apartments that were rented out. The three- to five-storied dwellings appeared no later than the third century B.C. The apartments were usually grouped around a small court and often occupied an entire block. They made up a large part of the Roman cities.

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The joint activity--redirection of grant funds, a practice by which OIA allows insular areas to move grant funds between projects--accounts for 24 percent of the weakness present in OIA grant projects.

U.S. Insular Areas: Opportunities Exist to Improve Interior's Grant Oversight and Reduce the Potential for Mismanagement

insular areas consist of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S.

United States of America (Tier 1)

Census Bureau estimates population of insular areas. [Press release].

Final 2000 Reports of Notifiable Diseases

The FCC recently initiated an effort to reform the current universal service subsidy allocation system by implementing a computer model that determines eligibility for funding using specific cost inputs to calculate the cost of providing service to rural and insular areas. Although the initiative certainly has merits, the program determines eligibility for subsidies in a manner that will reduce the availability of universal service funding in certain high-cost regions.

Universal service high-cost subsidy reform: hindering cable-telephony and other technological advancements in rural and insular regions

* States and insular areas reported needing 26,798 additional teachers to fill vacancies or to replace uncertified staff -- a figure equivalent to 9 percent of all special education teachers employed...

The 11th Annual Report to Congress of the Education of the Handicapped Act

The HOME Investment Partnerships program provides grants to states, local governments, Indian tribes and insular areas, through formula allocation, to expand the supply of affordable housing.

Some Housing Programs Shortchanged by Appropriators

We have asked that the set-aside level be returned to $95 million; its initial level which covered Native Americans, insular areas, and Section 107 special purpose grants.

Cities threatened with additional cost shifts from Washington