Word: donor
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Schools were cheaper in the old days. In 1639 a Puritan preacher gave half his estate and $400 worth of books to a nameless nine-student school; the place was named for the donor: John Harvard...
...developing nations want a separate "Green Fund" that they could help manage and control. The donor nations, suspicious of corruption in the governments of the South, have so far refused to budge. And since the North controls the money, its position is likely to prevail. "That's what gets my goat," says Anil Agarwal, director of the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. "They are the environmental crooks, and they have all the levers of power...
Representatives of CVS, a major corporate sponsor of the event and a $35,000 donor, were also present at the Friday night dinner...
Although neither the donor, John Taplin, nor the Medical School announced the size of the donation, an endowment yielding the interest necessary to operate the grants program would likely have to be near $10 million...
...addition to the team, many crew alumni andmembers of the donor families were present at theceremony. The boats were set on the docks andchampagne was poured over them, Hajeck said...