Word: fund
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...voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...
...Helsinki accord calls on industrialized countries to create a U.N. fund that would help the developing world adapt to life without CFCs, which are used, among other things, as refrigerator coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam. Just how this would be done was not specified. Still, Norway's Environment Minister Sissel Ronbeck announced that her country would contribute 0.1% of its gross national product, or about $88 million, if others would do the same...
...solution, Skinner believes, is to build new airports and expand existing ones so that they have room for more carriers. Next week voters in Denver will decide whether to fund the initial $2.3 billion for a new airport. It is the only major airport on U.S. drawing boards at the moment and, if approved, would be the country's first new one since Dallas-Fort Worth was completed...
BOSTON--The Senate swiftly approved a $71 million bill yesterday to fund welfare checks and other emergency accounts that are running dry in the final weeks of fiscal year...
Gaddafi, who put $10 million in trust to fund the award, had no say in choosing the winner. Swiss Socialist Deputy Jean Ziegler, a member of the jury that selected Mandela, said "ironclad guarantees" assured that Tripoli's influence would not be felt in Geneva. Nonetheless, human rights activists were clearly worried about the new philanthropist. Said an official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: "If the jury would consider people like Salman Rushdie, it would give more credibility to its independence...