Word: donor
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...profit? Some observers are skeptical. Corporate funding provides a boost to research and is relatively free of the red tape that often entangles Government grants. Yet one ideal of a university, however fitfully adhered to, is the sharing of information. Most contract grants between business and universities allow the donor corporation to review findings before publication, ensure exclusive patent rights and sometimes keep key data secret so competitors will not get them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging short-term solutions to specific problems or in developing products...
...completion date even if the original goal had been surpassed. On Boylston St., mean-while, a last-minute bulge in contributions pushed the K-school's fund drive over its $6 million preliminary target with only days to spare. The money--much of which came from a single anonymous donor--will fund an addition to the school, extending either up Boylston or Eliot streets...
...Caribbean and Central America; since 1980, in combination with Mexico, Venezuela has offered low-interest loans to needy neighbors to cover as much as 30% of the cost of oil imports. Total Venezuelan foreign aid since 1975 has amounted to some $4 billion, making Caracas the single largest donor in Latin America. (U.S. assistance to the region over the same period totals $2.9 billion...
Sourcees said the facility will not be named for the donor until his son, a current member of the Harvard tennis team, graduates...
...done at Stanford University. Led by Surgeon Norman Shumway, the Stanford team has performed 209 transplants since 1968 and reports that half of recipients can now be expected to live at least five years. These improved results are largely due to the ability to predict more accurately when the donor heart will be rejected. This allows doctors to use anti-rejection drugs with precision, minimizing undesired side effects...