Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard proceeded cautiously with the sale, unwilling to offend the family and friends or to violate the trust of a prominent donor. It secured a deal with a wealthy and respected philanthropist in New York, William T. Golden, who promised to use the forest for research and preserve Stillman's intentions...
Carnegie-Mellon was given its share of investment money by "an anonymous donor who has worked with the university in the past," said Hale...
...Sackler does not see giving money to an institution as a means for influencing the institution's actions. "As a donor, I have been very sensitive to the fact that when I was a student, I objected to outsiders influencing decisions just because they had donated money," he said. "I believe that a donor should 'done', so to speak. He should be as constructive as possible without intervening with the students, faculty, or institution...
Warren, a Holworthy resident, has an i.d. from a Montreal acupuncture school, which he got from a one-time student of the school. Warren installed his own mug shot in place of its former owner's and assumed the donor's name and 1962 birth date. Dr. Warren has managed to buy liquor from even the usually suspicious liquor store owners...
...weeks ago, he was classified as a "9," which meant he required a transplant within 48 hours. Two days later a heart had still not been found, and Copeland recalls, "he looked like a piece of yellow paste. We felt he was going to die within hours." Unless a donor heart could be found, Drummond's only chance for survival was a temporary Jarvik...