Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal mission of the private foundation is to take its resources where neither Government, which must consider the taxpayer, nor private business, which must account to the stockholder, dare go. Foundations should provide the risk capital of philanthropy, acting as the pioneers pushing forward into the future...
...their influence on U.S. society-has begun to stir criticism and concern in some quarters. When looked at in the widest context, this point of view seems unwarranted. Foundation wealth represents the tiniest fraction of all private wealth in this country, which is estimated at $2.15 trillion. Foundation grants account for only 8% of total U.S. philanthropy, 80% of which comes from the individual giver, in a gamut of generosity that embraces large and small offerings to hospitals, churches, the Community Chest and even the coins dropped into Salvation Army tambourines...
...impressive showing of team depth, the Crimson's third line played inspired hockey to account for three of the eight scores, and the second line produced a superior defensive effort to repeatedly stall the Redmen attack. Third unit center Steve Barker accounted for two goals, and right wing Ford Fraker tipped in a single tally. Led by left wing Paul Sweeney's especially strong puck grabbing, the second line managed to shut out Dartmouth completely while...
...release no details about the attack, and requested Pieper--apparently the only witness to the beating--not to talk with reporters. However, several of Pieper's friends and a group of Kirkland House students who arrived at the scene immediately after the hoodlums left have provided a still-unconfirmed account of what happened...
...this kind of "sinlessness" and "purity" is arrogant pride, and I think we must say No to it. The martyr who offers himself meekly as a lamb to the altar is a fool unless he has fully taken into account the consequences of has sacrifice not only to himself but to the rest of the world. We cannot honor him for his stigmata or his purple hearts unless he has helped the rest of us while he got them...