Word: endowments
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...responsibility of leaders is not simply to affirm an objective. It is above all to endow it with a meaning compatible with the values of their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides...
...International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has pledged $1 million to endow a professorship in computer science. The pledge is as large a corporate grant as the University's $250 million capital fund drive has received...
...grant joins a $500,000 grant made by CBS last summer to help endow the first of two planned professorships in the Center...
...disagrees: "While most people over 30 are somewhat intimidated by computers," he says, "the younger game players accept them as tools to be used, to be taken for granted, to be enjoyed. They are better prepared than we are for the computer revolution." Skow, a cheerful skeptic, refuses to endow the phenomenon with any cosmic significance at all. His view: "It's just another manifestation of human mania, our endearing quality of going relentlessly after absolutely pointless goals...
...second law of corporate contributions: companies are always more willing to give when their giving is seen. "Many companies are reluctant to give for endowment, for bricks and mortar," Stephenson observes. They are more likely to endow professorships or support buildings and forums, than they are to donate money for unrestricted...