Word: benefactors
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...move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough money from the military next year to keep the federal deficit moving downward. Bush recognizes that he is the benefactor of a rare alignment of stars. "I'm a lucky person to be President of our country in these very exciting times," he said last week. But as the ground in Europe continues to shift, he will need more than luck...
Funded by a $50,000 donation from the grandson of the library's benefactor, the carpet was selected by members of the Lamont Beautification Committee, said Heather E. Cole, librarian of Lamont and Hilles. Cole said the rug was part of a plan to cover the cork in all public areas of the building...
...chair, endowed by a benefactor of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, will fill a critical gap in the department's overall study of Chinese political science, said Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, a China expert and the head of the search committee...
Harry, newly arrived in the U.S. and married to the American-born Sorella, would like to thank his benefactor. But Rose, a glutton for publicity in all other aspects, will not see Harry or acknowledge his letters. And how does the narrator know all this? Through the confidences of Sorella, immensely fat ("She was biologically dramatized in waves and scrolls of tissue") and enormously dedicated ("a tiger wife") to the well-being of her husband. Harry eventually gives up hope of thanking Rose, but his spouse does...
...Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights has a surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...