Word: earmarks
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Also at Coffey and Bonfili's urging, members approved a constitutional amendment that will earmark at least 60 percent of a minimum council budget for student group grants...
...Medical School yesterday dedicated a newly-renovated research building, the first part of a plan by donors to earmark $60 million to neuroscience...
Gone as well is Clinton's support for a permanent U.N. armed force: "the U.S. does not support a standing U.N. army, nor will we earmark specific U.S. military units for participation..." This position pushes U.S. policy behind even that of the bush administration--never a big supporter of the U.N.--which had pledged to designate certain U.S. military units for cooperation with...
...pressures of p.c. and multiculturalism are by no means limited to the campus. They are almost as intense among cultural institutions, charities and the media, which increasingly earmark jobs for Hispanics, Asians or other target groups. After the San Diego Opera was cited by a state arts agency for not having enough Hispanic employees, it set aside for only Hispanic candidates its next opening for a publicist. The September convention of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association turned into a recruitment center for major national media seeking to diversify newsrooms. Insiders say the National Book Awards and even...
...near-$2 billion Harvard seeks to raise in the five-year capital campaign, Rudenstine wants to earmark roughly 10 percent for this safety net, he said--though he emphasized that no goals have yet been...