Word: donor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch with Buckley's captors. So in May, North raised the $200,000 from Perot. He then described the plan in a June 7, 1985, memo to McFarlane. The $200,000, he indicated, would only be a kind of down payment; eventually $2 million would be needed from "the donor" to rent a yacht to bring the hostages to Cyprus, to set up a safe house for them on the island and, apparently, to pay additional bribes...
...Surgeon William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback over Couch's own ailing heart. By 10 a.m. the exhausted physicians had completed their tasks and made American medical history. It marked the first time in the U.S. that a living individual had donated his heart, in what is termed a "domino donor" organ exchange. Officials at London's Harefield Hospital revealed last week that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually been first to use the domino approach there in April...
...week's end both patients were sitting up in chairs, and House had even enjoyed his first post-op hamburger. House had been happy to serve as both organ donor and recipient, said his mother Joyce Plesic. "He said if someone could help him, he should help someone else." Couch's wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance to meet the man who gave him his heart. Doctors say that get-together may occur this week...
...donation, for 44 cents, came from a woman who confessed to reusing two postage stamps. A gift of $2,000 came from an anonymous donor who wanted to clear his conscience with "the IRS and with God." The largest deposit -- $50,000 from a man who gave no reason for sending the money -- helped to set a new record for contributions to the Federal Government's "conscience fund," the account made up of donations from guilt-ridden citizens. In 1986 the fund tallied $380,929.49 -- greater than any year since the fund was established in 1811, when an anonymous donor...
Many Protestants share the Vatican's alarm over the ever braver worlds of human reproduction that advanced biomedical techniques have made possible. Clinics are now assisting in fertilizations involving donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, single women and lesbian couples. Lawyer George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University's School of Medicine, notes the possibility that a child could have five different parents: the father who donates sperm, the mother who produces the ovum, the mother who provides the womb, and the mother and the father who raise the child...