Word: fund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the idea for the Harvard Campaign first germinated in University offices, planners called it "the core drive"--not because some of its proceeds would fund the Core Curriculum, but because it would seek money for the "core" of the University, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Meanwhile, Turkey founders. Three months ago Ecevit reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund that allowed the country to reschedule $5 billion in short-term debts and thus stave off bankruptcy. The IMF deal unlocked a package of $1.8 billion in cash credits on favorable terms from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development countries...
...took the twelve-member Swiss jury only 50 minutes to decide the long-pending case, and when acquittal was an nounced the Geneva courtroom erupted in applause. Then a smiling Bernie Cornfeld, 52, the bearded hustler from Brooklyn who had founded Investors Overseas Services, the bankrupt European-based mutual fund empire, repaired to a near by cafe for a victory celebration. After a four-week trial that even the presiding judge described as a "circus," Cornfeld was declared innocent of charges that he had coerced employees of I.O.S. into buying its stock when he knew his operation was collapsing...
...think South Africa is far away, but the racism is also right here," Graham said, adding Cambridge residents "better begin to attack racism at home, because that is where the money is coming from to fund apartheid...
...Early Fund Drive...