Word: escrowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even of their worst fears. Their instinct when they get in trouble is to talk about it with other women. So once they have weathered the crisis, they are ready to become crisis managers. The hospice nurse opens a consulting firm to help women handle their aging parents. The escrow officer becomes a personal trainer specializing in older women. The Harvard M.B.A. with three kids opens a temp agency specializing in placing part-time manager moms. Or in the Extreme Makeover version, Martha Stewart emerges from prison kinder, gentler and declaring, "Our passion is and always should be to make...
...Mahan and Terry figured, money talks. They founded an escrow account—a fund that gathers money but does not dispense it until certain conditions are met—and began collecting donations...
...group created an escrow account, promising to give the money to Harvard if it met several demands regarding the status of women at the university—prime among them an increase in the number of tenured female faculty. The fund grew to $100,000—not a lot in terms of Harvard fundraising, but enough to attract the national media...
...rebel-led government of South Sudan, said Jemera Rone, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Until a final peace accord is reached ending the two-decade-long Sudanese civil war, the South’s share of oil revenues will accrue interest in an escrow fund, Rone said...
While the escrow account did not meet its primary goal, the committee members say their fundraising potential forced the University to notice them...