Word: escrowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both 1971 and 1989 recommending target levels of women and minority faculty members, the number...
...rather simple: you've done a lot for us, Harvard, but to make the experience of students to come as good as it can be, our support will continue to be contingent on you making progress in the areas where progress is so desperately needed. Of course, money in escrow is still money raised. No doubt, the range of progressive causes espoused by the alternative senior gift committee--from curriculum reform to fair labor practices--will give some students, who would otherwise not have contributed, the incentive to write a check. Once tenure standards are met, this money would...
About 20 seniors last night unveiled the Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF), an escrow fund to be donated to the College once the University hires a certain number of women and minority faculty...
...through the checks. Some were plainly unacceptable. The Clinton defense fund accepts checks of $1,000 or less from individuals who are U.S. citizens only--not from corporations, lobbyists or federal employees. When Trie came back from lunch, Cardozo returned checks worth $70,000, while keeping the rest in escrow pending an investigation. The contributions were literally too good to be true: though some appeared to come from different people in different cities, the handwriting was often the same and some of the money orders were in sequence...
...concerned about plans by companies like Spring Street Brewing, which launched the first ever initial public offering on the Internet earlier this year. The New York City-based beer company was briefly forced by the Securities and Exchange Commission to suspend trading until it hired a bank or escrow agent to handle investor money. The offering of nearly 900,000 shares at $1.85 a share was such a smashing success that Spring Street wants to start an in-house brokerage to take other companies public and trade their stocks exclusively on the Internet...