Word: donor
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...patient, they start answering the telephone, "International House of Cancer." Just three days after Mike's death, Julia has to undergo a hysterectomy, and her doctor suggests that she might want to harvest a few eggs from her still-functioning ovaries, which could later be fertilized by a sperm donor and carried to term by a surrogate mother. "Oh great," she muses, "now I have to meet a guy and a girl...
Campaign funds are given to politicians and political parties to influence votes and get favors. So if the politicians who get the funds do not vote the way the donor wants, aren't they taking money under false pretenses? STEWART M. LEE Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania...
Consider New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, Dole's campaign co-chairman, who, U.S. officials told TIME, recently held hostage the foreign aid of the African nation of Zimbabwe at the behest of American International Group, an insurance giant that is a major donor to the G.O.P. Since 1990, AIG has given almost $300,000 in "soft money" to Republican Party committees, including $178,000 in this election cycle. An AIG subsidiary, Unity Insurance Co., is the only U.S.-based financial-services firm in Zimbabwe. Since 1987 that country has been demanding that foreign-owned financial companies draft plans...
These missives occasionally show federal officials urging their superiors to favor donor executives. In one letter, Reta Lewis, a political affairs official at the White House, urges that a spot be found for Gerald McGowan, a partner in a Washington law firm, on a trade mission to Indonesia or India. For one thing, Lewis points out, McGowan qualifies as a D.N.C. "managing trustee," someone who gives $100,000 a year to the Democratic National Committee...
Little Professor of Business Administration Charles J. Christenson says that although Radcliffe cannot continue to spend its quasi-endowment funds indefinitely, the college's current policy is not in violation of the capital donor's intent...