Word: earmarking
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...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...
...fight over the construction of a new Varsity Club has broken down to a pair of questions: (1) Did Allston Burr '89 earmark $250,000 for the construction of the club? (2) If not, is there justification for spending a quarter of a million dollars on such a club...
After his ten-minute speech, Administration forces defeated an amendment to earmark $1 billion of EGA funds for mandatory spending on U.S. crops; they also beat down the Irish amendment (see below). The economy bloc did succeed in cutting $250 million from the Administration's proposed EGA appropriation, and pruned $20 million from the President's Point Four program. The foreign-aid bill as it finally passed the House totaled $3.1 billion: EGA, $2.85 billion; Korean aid, $100 million; China and contiguous areas, $100 million; Arab refugee relief in Palestine, $27.4 million; Point Four, $25 million. Next stop...
Students this year will again be able to earmark their contributions for the Association. Though the featured charities on the pledge card are those that are mainly student-supported, the Tuberculosis Fund can also be subscribed to on the card...
Secretary Acheson, who is smarting under criticism of his White Paper on China (TIME, Aug. 15), and grows steadily more emotional over the Chinese Nationalist regime, jumped to the conviction that the Republican amendment would earmark aid for the Nationalists, and gave no weight to the larger idea of harassing the Communists...