Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hemophiliacs are uniquely vulnerable to blood-borne diseases because they depend on vast quantities of a blood byproduct to control their bleeding. A year's supply of the substance, known as anti-hemophiliac factor concentrate (AHF), comes from the blood of 25,000 to 75,000 donors. In the past year the CDC has also received alarming reports of about eight cases of suspected AIDS in nonhemophiliac blood recipients. Four cases had received donor blood after open-heart surgery; a fifth was a hysterectomy patient. In a sixth case, that of a baby in San Francisco who had required...
Officials believe these tactics have emphasized Harvard's needs so strongly that many alumni have reached deeply into their pockets for "stretch gifts" that far exceed their past trend of giving to Harvard. According to Glimp, the average donor to the Campaign has pledged 110 times the level of his normal annual gift in the past...
...facility's budget of $1.035 million will be covered largely through alumni donations. Friends of Harvard Track, an outside booster organization, will be the largest donor with about 10 percent. The Business School, located adjacent to the Soldiers Field athletic complex, will also donate funds...
...track may be named for former Coach Bill McCurdy, who retired last year after 32 years at Harvard, Oommen said. Reardon said no name has been chosen, although "a major donor might have strong feelings about it being named after himself...
...institute's most prominent recent work has come in the field of disease prevention. Two notable projects in this area are a new procedure for transplanting bone marrow which does not require the marrow of a matched donor, and last spring's discovery of a relation between cancer and genetic changes in cells...