Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fund's 175 years, remorseful citizens have turned over more than $5.7 million. Some offerings are larger in spirit than in dollar value. A former federal employee who felt guilty about copying private letters on a Government duplicating machine sent in $20 last year. He figured the copying cost came to $5, but he sent more "because the Bible says to repay fourfold...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, The Center for Hellenic Studies and Villa I Tatti--the University's three academic buildings outside Cambridge--were donated to the University by wealthy benefactors and operate largely off of multi-million dollar endowments...
Maintaining I Tatti is a costly venture. Income from its approximately $10 million endowment covered less than half of the center's $1.2 million operating budget during the 1985-'86 fiscal year. Trying to make up the additional cost, coupled with compensating for the falling price of the U.S. dollar against the Italian lira, has forced the University to begin seeking outside grants and donations...
Edelman is not without her detractors, who accuse her of trying to solve social problems merely by throwing money at them. She responds -- how else? -- with statistics. According to the C.D.F., for every dollar spent on the nutrition programs for women, infants and children, three are saved by avoiding more expensive hospital care for underweight and malnourished children. Says Edelman: "People ought to be able to distinguish between throwing money at problems and investing in success...
...damages to be assessed. If Monsanto loses, it will almost certainly appeal, in which case an appellate judge might take the better part of a year just to read over the record. Attorney friends have told Carr, who is 60, that he may be senile before he sees a dollar of Monsanto money. "Maybe," he replies, "I was senile when I agreed to get into this fight in the first place...