Word: earmarks
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...plan also would earmark several thousand dollars in "merit funds" for student groups that the finance committee chooses...
...sports generate greater revenues than women's sports. In addition, many teams have friends' groups that earmark donations for specific sports. Because of their larger support networks, men's teams generally receive more funds from these sources...
PHILADELPHIA, Penn.--The University of Pennsylvania may earmark $5 million for the recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students, reported The Daily Pennsylvanian last week...
...state participation--the dollar amount per recipient--that now governs Washington's piece of the total funding. That's why benefit levels among states vary so dramatically. If states are no longer required to pony up their own funds as a condition of federal help, the money they do earmark for welfare will have to compete with every other program. In battles like those, the politically powerless lose, and no group has less clout than the poor. In fact, this truism has already caused welfare benefits to decline about 40% in constant dollars over the past 20 years. States strapped...
...population summit in Cairo was predictably fractious and confrontational -- but it ended in surprising harmony. The 180 participating countries approved a plan calling for governments to earmark $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply documented proposition that women who control their own lives tend to have fewer children. Even so, if there is no better follow-up to Cairo than there was to the Earth Summit in Rio, don't expect the population bomb to be defused anytime soon...