Word: donor
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Should the bill fail to reach the floor before December 31, it will die in committee, causing a breakdown in the planning of the museum. The donor of the land, Sprague Technologies, and the art collectors have committed themselves only until the end of 1987, after which the land and the art may go to other owners...
...long range plan is that the Charles and Joanne Dickinson Endowment would function as a permanent, named endowed fund at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The specific terms of the Endowment may be modified subsequently upon mutual agreement of the Dean, or his successor, and the donors. If, at some future time, the Endowment cannot be usefully applied to agreed upon purposes, they will be applied to such uses as will most nearly accomplish the donor's initial intent...
...only Councilor to win Harvard administrators' contributions, Mayor Sullivan raised $34,930.16 and spent $14,786. Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill, gave $200 to Sullivan with her husband, Thomas P. O'Neill III. Another donor was Robert H. Scott, Harvard's new financial vice president...
...ratings changes are highly significant in the televangelism industry, because viewers form what ministries term their "donor base." The faithful TV audience is a mainstay of ministry income, providing a steady flow of gifts -- commonly $10 or $20 a contributor. The names and addresses of donors are carefully preserved in computer banks and used in direct-mail donation pitches, another major source of ministry income. At the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries headquarters, for example, workers used to extract some $2.5 million in monthly donations from occasional donors. That amount has now been cut in half...
...glittering prize, with its daily TV show, its all-day religious cable service transmitted to 13 million homes, and the splashy, 2,300-acre Heritage USA theme park, the ministry's entertainment centerpiece. PTL's Hargrave denied at the bankruptcy meeting that Falwell had usurped PTL's 518,000-donor mailing list and that checks made out to PTL had gone to the Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group of PTL contributors intent on removing Falwell: "His credibility stinks." Says Ryan Hovis, a bankruptcy lawyer representing Bakker: "No stockholder in Chrysler would...