Word: donor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School critics, including former Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, say they worry that Law School Dean Robert C. Clark may get the wrong idea from the gift. A sizable gift from a Black donor might foster a sense of complacency among administrators, causing them to recruit minority professors less vigorously, according to Bell and others...
...million a year, a 25% increase over 1991. Teams in small markets resent the big money made and spent by teams in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Half the clubs are supposedly losing money. It's enough to make 28 plutocrats wonder: When did owner become synonymous with donor...
...assessment marked the end of the era of Mau-Mauing Westerners into a chic guilt. The World Bank, the IMF and the so-called donor countries made it clear they wanted to wean African countries from thinking of aid as a permanent fact of life. Part of the trend, especially in West Africa, has been to move African executives trained at the World Bank into key decision-making posts within national governments. The Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, for example, worked for the IMF for nearly two decades before taking a post at home...
...playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them, alas, happen offstage and are reported in monologues by the decorators...
Fifteen hundred dollars will buy a teakwood bench for the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. If a donor cannot afford the million dollars to endow an academic chair, it is conceivable that some college somewhere will give him a cafeteria chair for a few bucks...