Word: endowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phase I construction fund is currently lacking $3 million of the needed funding. The endowment fund drive, which would eventually generate about $300,000 in annual income and would pay to operate the facilities, has raised half of its $6.2 million goal. If Harvard cannot adequately endow the athletic project, the complex would have to operate at a loss, cut down services, or seek funding elsewhere, John P. Reardon '64, Director of Athletics, said yesterday...
...invented blew up his own brother. He was an unscrupulous and successful capitalist whose companies became one of the earliest multinational organizations selling the invention which, they claimed, would end war through its deterrent effect. Driven by intense feelings of guilt. Nobel left most of his fortune to endow the prizes that bear his name, with special attention paid to the award for peace...
Donors have pledged less than half of the $30 million needed to build and endow the Soldiers Field athletics complex and if the fund drive does not pick up in the next few months, the University will have to provide the money to complete the project...
...increasing demand for the hormone, which the body needs to turn sugar into energy, drug companies seeking alternative sources have pinned some of their hopes on recombinant DNA technology. By inserting the human insulin gene into the DNA of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli, they could, in theory, endow the bug with the capacity to make human insulin...
...year-old aviator, boyish yet reserved, became a hero of the world. He hated to be called "Lucky Lindy" - luck had nothing to do with it, he said, just skill. Yet he had intersected with history at precisely the right moment: technology and public mood conspired to endow Lindbergh with an almost primitive magic...