Word: earmarking
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...College is also taking action to speed the transferring of money intended for groups from University gift accounts, Kidd and McLoughlin said yesterday. Gift accounts allow alums to give money to Harvard and earmark it for a certain student group...
...students for student groups, social life and services. Boston University (BU), for example, has a mandatory $414 yearly fee with $128 devoted to student groups and $82 to campus events. So even though BU’s fee covers a broader range of services than ours, we still earmark less than a sixth of what they do for student groups and events...
First, the increase from $35 to $75 is only $28 in real terms—$12 would go to keeping our budget at its current level. Second, the council would be constitutionally mandated to earmark two-thirds of all funds for student group grants, meaning that roughly $19 out of the remaining $28 would be used to move us closer to meeting student groups’ actual needs. Finally, the last $9 would go to improving the quality of established events, such as more movie nights or better and cheaper concerts, and funding new initiatives, such as class-wide barbeques...
...United States has a moral obligation to help countries whose citizens are in such dire states of poverty and suffering; we should earmark a much larger portion of the federal budget for developmental assistance and direct aid. And our foreign aid should neither be distributed based on a narrow foreign policy agenda, nor should it be directed at corrupt regimes...
...which regularly hires consultants, researchers and admissions officers fresh out of business schools across the country, will simply earmark 10 spots for its own graduates, said spokesperson David R. Lampe...