Word: benefactors
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...Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely notes that it was "especially pleasing" to realize that his neighbors on the estate were the descendants of squatters resettled in housing programs that he had once extolled as the government's spin supremo...
...School of Dental Medicine professor cleared last month of allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation...
...million, a donor can have his or her name attached to the new Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering building. Endowing the Northwest Science Building costs $5 million, and the south wing of the Center for Government and International Studies runs a benefactor $750,000.The endowments on these soon-to-be Harvard landmarks have been shopped around for months, but in the wake of the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby this spring, some people involved in fundraising at Harvard are worried that the buildings may remain unnamed a little longer.Interviews...
Fifield said that she did not know the identity of the benefactor who had helped the Seneca acquire property...
Fifield said that she did not know the identity of the benefactor who had helped the Seneca acquire property...