Word: donor
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...finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer of his work and career.” The donation—one of the largest gifts tied to an endowed professorship in the history of the Law School—comes at a time when educational institutions around...
...Unfortunately, that same model doesn't exist with women. Women can end up with a diffuse hair loss, so the source of donor hair is not going to be there for women. Most women, eighty percent of women, don't have that wreath...
...something was expected. The courts realize there is a right to give, a constitutional right to support your candidate with money. But now we're into the gray area. When is there an expectation of a reward [for having provided that monetary support]? When does the politician or the donor cross the line? It's not clearly spelled...
...Putin, warning him that Gazprom and Russia faced the loss of reputation and revenues as Western customers looked elsewhere. The E.U. efforts were almost all aimed at the Russians rather than the Ukrainians. They also spoke with Ukrainian officials. It helps that the E.U. is Ukraine's largest aid donor. Ukraine is facing a financial meltdown, and recently asked for a $16.4 billion International Monetary Fund bailout. Gazprom, owing around $60 billion and seriously short of cash, currently has storage reservoirs so full that it risked having to burn off some of its surplus if the gas was not pumped...
Ploeg notes that these results should help doctors make the most of the kidneys that are currently available. Ploeg's study found that machine-preserved kidneys performed consistently better than cold-stored kidneys no matter who the donor. In other words, perfusion proved beneficial, even when the organ donor was older or had other issues that would make the tissue marginal for transplant. That's especially important, since in recent years, the quality of donated kidneys has declined, due in part to the typical donor's advanced age and increase in accumulated health problems and diseases. Given the dwindling...