Word: earmarking
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...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...
...Credibility disputes are the earmark of these kinds of cases,” Murphy said. “What’s really troublesome is that they still don’t say it is possible for us to figure out what to do in a case where all we have is one student saying it happened and the other student saying it didn?...
...previous discussions about the theatre, the University administration had indicated that it would build a theatre only if it received money and substantial endowment expressly for a theatre. Both President Conant and Provost Buck indicated that they might earmark money for a theatre as soon as someone made substantial funds available for the building...
...counterarguments present themselves. Proponents of the Senior Gift would counter that I can earmark my donations to causes such as undergraduate financial aid, which is a laudable program. Still, the record of the financial aid office at Harvard has been less than stellar. Although aid has increased in recent years, these changes have been the result of competitive pressure, not a desire to meaningfully benefit the lives of students. Harvard, I feel confident in claiming, would never have made such changes had Princeton not taken the lead. If I am going to give money to support undergraduate financial...