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Political candidates can receive no more than $1000 from any one donor but there is no such limit on contributions to petition drives for ballot questions. Asked if his support for the two-term limit would enable him to receive large contributions from supporters via the fund supporting the ballot drive, Malone said he would not abuse the system...
...repression and propaganda is one thing; finding the road toward political and economic recovery quite another. In Beijing, much of the public transportation system has been destroyed or damaged. Losses to the national economy are estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Japan, China's largest foreign-aid donor, has announced a halt in negotiations for a $120 million loan for an oil project. The U.S. and Britain have suspended all public and private arms sales to China for the foreseeable future: the P.L.A. alone needs to replace more than 300 vehicles smashed or burned in the taking...
...MacArthur grant is the largest one received by the Murray Research Center, said Colby. The center recently received a $3.2 million gift from an anonymous donor which was the largest sum it has ever received...
...wanted $4,400, so they did a deal. What's more, it seems like an advantageous deal all around. The buyer avoided a lifetime of dialysis. The seller provided crucial help to his child, at minimum risk to himself. (According to the Economist, the chance of a kidney donor's dying as a result of the loss...
...Another socialist philosopher, Richard Titmuss, wrote a famous book two decades ago called The Gift Relationship, extolling the virtues of donated blood over purchased blood and, by extension, the superiority of sharing over commerce. Whatever you may think of Titmuss's larger point, the appeal of the blood-donor system as a small testament to our shared humanity is undeniable. Perhaps we should do more to encourage organ donation at death for the same reason. On the other hand, however cozy and egalitarian it might seem, a system that supplied all the kidneys we need through voluntary donation would...