Word: fund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero to environmentalists not only because he fought and died to stop deforestation but also because of the way of life he was defending. The rubber tappers are living proof that poor Brazilians can profit from the forest without destroying it. According to Stephan Schwartzman of the Environmental Defense Fund, seringueiros achieve a higher standard of living by harvesting the forest's bounty than do farmers who cut the forest and plant crops...
...every business executive has an intellectual interest in poverty and a spare $7 million on hand to fund research...
...June he gave the Kennedy School of Government $7 million to fund the school's 18-month-old poverty studies center...
...least, that's what University administrators are hoping as they plan what could be Harvard's--and higher education's --largest fund drive ever...
Almost all of the Harvard schools have planned individual fund drives which have been put on hold until the decision about a comprehensive effort is reached...