Word: fund
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Private citizens helped their Carolina neighbors in heartwarming fashion, sending up to 30 truckloads of supplies a day into the devastated Charleston area. U.S. Marines on bulldozers removed rubble, and Navy personnel repaired bridges and provided generators. Congress passed a $1.1 billion relief fund for all Hugo's American victims, but Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley complained mildly that Washington may not have "understood" the "extent of the damage." President Bush belatedly visited the area for two hours on Friday. Responding to complaints that federal help had been too slow, Bush said he understood the "frustration," even while he insisted that...
...will fund the center with a five-year grant of about $38.6 million, said Leslie Fink, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Allergies and Infections Diseases, the NIH division overseeing the project. Fink said NIH chose Harvard from a national competition...
...proposed rules have sparked an instant controversy among researchers here, particularly because they may have implications for the University's Medical Science Partnership (MSP), a venture capital fund for marketing new technology that comes out of Medical School research...
...according to Arlene T. Heiss, Radcliffe's director of annual and reunion giving, the school reorganized its joint fundraising efforts one year ago in anticipation of the joint fund's dissolution...
Heiss, who joined the Radcliffe team in June, 1988, said she "restructured[fundraising efforts] with the possible change inmind." But, she added, "it's too early to tell" ifthe reorganized Radcliffe Fund will increase theschool's money-raising potential...