Word: endowments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Berkmans' gift will also endow the newly-created Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies...
...lifelong love of anthropology inspired Professor Emeritus William W. Howells '30 and Muriel S. Howells to endow the directorship of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology earlier this month...
...kinds of mustard at the supermarket, and at the Tops in Buffalo, N.Y., sales of shiitake mushrooms have doubled this year. Clinique is marketing a perfume called Happy, and Levi Strauss sells custom-fit riveted jeans based on customers' computer-detailed specifications. The youngest donors ever to endow a chair at Stanford are the founders of Internet browser Yahoo!--even the chair comes with an exclamation point...
Instead, they expose the implicit and explicit ways majorities, even in the best intentioned places, endow their traditions with universal acceptance and shield them under the guise of secular neutrality...
Today Cemal Kafadar, professor of history, enters his new role as Koc Professor of Turkish studies. The Kocs--Turkey's most prominent business family--donated $1.75 million last February to endow the chair. The new post honors Vehbi Koc, founder of the dynasty...