Word: donor
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Because antibodies can seek out even minute amounts of a foreign substance, they are an extremely valuable medical tool. Doctors can use them to match donor and recipients for everything from blood transfusions to kidney and heart transplants; if antibodies from the potential recipient "recognize" anything in the donated tissue as "foreign," the chances are that the transplant will be rejected. In the future, doctors foresee many other uses for antibodies as well, possibly including a cancer therapy...
...MacArthur group will pay the purchase price, reportedly about $250,000, to the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., and assume the magazine's subscription liability of some $3 million. But it will share the magazine's operating costs with the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, whose donor, ARCO, four years ago bailed out another pauper of the press, Britain's Sunday Observer...
...money out of being politically 'in'." Furthermore, a pesky contributor "always wanted to give the money to you personally, so he was sure that you knew he was helping you." And, Agnew explains, "he usually gave it in cash," on which "he had probably not paid taxes." Anyway, the donor almost surely knew that "in every campaign there was a great need for 'walking around money,' the legal tender for paid election-day workers and for other cash needs that did not look quite right on a detailed election expenditure report." Wisely, it would seem, Agnew "wanted to be insulated...
...cost of repairing war damage and financing development is now estimated to be $3 billion, much of which will have to come from foreign aid. Yet hard-cash pledges from the West have fallen far short of that goal. Britain is the largest donor; it has promised to give $166.5 million over the next three years. The U.S. will provide only $15 million this year, and is seeking between $25 million and $30 million for fiscal 1981. The United Nations has offered $140 million in refugee aid. Pondering these modest sums, a few Mugabe associates wonder ironically whether this...
Gabler said that although students have not compiled the results- of a donor questionnaire, she has noticed that many participants cited the encouragement of friends as incentive for giving blood...