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...money out of being politically 'in'." Furthermore, a pesky contributor "always wanted to give the money to you personally, so he was sure that you knew he was helping you." And, Agnew explains, "he usually gave it in cash," on which "he had probably not paid taxes." Anyway, the donor almost surely knew that "in every campaign there was a great need for 'walking around money,' the legal tender for paid election-day workers and for other cash needs that did not look quite right on a detailed election expenditure report." Wisely, it would seem, Agnew "wanted to be insulated...
...cost of repairing war damage and financing development is now estimated to be $3 billion, much of which will have to come from foreign aid. Yet hard-cash pledges from the West have fallen far short of that goal. Britain is the largest donor; it has promised to give $166.5 million over the next three years. The U.S. will provide only $15 million this year, and is seeking between $25 million and $30 million for fiscal 1981. The United Nations has offered $140 million in refugee aid. Pondering these modest sums, a few Mugabe associates wonder ironically whether this...
Gabler said that although students have not compiled the results- of a donor questionnaire, she has noticed that many participants cited the encouragement of friends as incentive for giving blood...
...often without providing money to maintain it. Says Sy Zachar, an analyst working on a study of physical plant maintenance funded by the Carnegie Corp.: "It's easy to find some foundation eager to donate a new tax-deductible library or a shiny new anything. But what donor wants to put a plaque on a steam pipe?" At the University of California at Berkeley, administrators nickname the list of "deferred maintenance" problems the "Crummy and Seedy Project...
People who have already given blood know that it is not painful and that it "gives the donor a tremendous amount of satisfaction," Scheft added...