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Also in May, Radcliffe announced theestablishment of a $3 million matching fund froman anonymous donor...
Radcliffe received several "transforming" gifts this year to boost the campaign, according to Clendenning, including $1 million from the Pforzheimer family for the Schlesinger Library, a $1 million bequest to a student assistance fund from Betty Ann H. Vail '34 and a $3 million matching fund from an anonymous donor...
...desk. The State Department supported the waiver, arguing that it would promote trade with China and enhance America's position as the world telecommunications leader. But Clinton knew that Loral's technology transfer was under investigation. He also knew that Loral's chairman, Bernard Schwartz, was the largest individual donor to the D.N.C. in 1996, responsible for more than $600,000 in soft-money donations. Clinton was warned in a Feb. 18 decision memo that Justice believed that if the Loral investigation ever went to trial, "a jury likely would not convict" the company if it received another presidential waiver...
...hopes of rallying more punishing global sanctions looked dim. India's biggest donor, Japan, froze new grants, then suspended all loans for future projects, costing India roughly $1 billion. But none of the other nuclear powers--Britain, France, Russia or China--was willing to cut off aid or trade...
With the exception of Donald Fisher, CEO of Gap, Inc., who has been a prominent donor to the 226 effort, California businesses have been staying out of this fight. To make sure they do, labor has threatened to introduce counter-initiatives that could negatively affect the tax status of corporations that make political contributions. And by some interpretations, Prop. 226 could be used to require corporations to get their stockholders' permission before making political contributions...