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Kirwan calls for a more centralized budgeting process that will place decisions in the hands of FAS finance administrators. In accordance with the “first-dollar principle,” units are being asked to work with FAS administrators to determine “core expenses” and to duly prioritize the units’ restricted resources...
...person is the founder, it's Rick Santelli. A year ago, the CNBC commentator blew a gasket on the air over a plan by the Obama Administration to tackle the foreclosure crisis. Multibillion-dollar proposals were flying like snowflakes in Washington, and Santelli's rant struck a chord with people who wondered where all the money would come from. "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party," Santelli declared, evoking the 1773 protest in Boston Harbor. A movement was born. Egged on by conservative interest groups and leveraging Barack Obama's digital-networking strategies, grass-roots opponents...
Certainly, these performances have other goals besides raking in cash; providing an entertaining program for the audience is an obvious example. While performers alone may not define success in commercial terms, the main measure of a benefit concert is the dollar amount on the check they send to charity. Thus, a great deal of the energy expended in organizing such concerts is devoted to maximizing profit...
...Haiti,” these costs are quite significant. Fortunately, the costs of the concert were covered by the University in conjunction with the Office for the Arts. In addition, the performers at the benefit concert worked pro bono. Of course, this is to be expected—every dollar that goes to a performer is a dollar that does not go to charity. However, the effort involved in performing at the benefit is substantial; groups with upwards of eighty members gathered on short notice to learn new music...
...soldiers felt giddy all the same. They had penetrated into a rebel rearguard position, outwitted the enemy, and kept themselves alive. Then there was the money. Sure, they had struck out in their search for Keith, Marc and Tom. But referring to the twenty-, fifty-, and hundred-dollar bills they'd dug up, Suárez pointed out they had already found three gringos: Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Benjamin Franklin...