Word: fund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...
...addition, work-study currently has many students cleaning bathrooms and performing other tasks for universities, even though the fund is supposed to go directly towards work for the community. Administrators should use the money as it was intended, by encouraging work-study recipients to perform work more related to the community outside of their college. In general, present federal aid programs are crucial to the low-income student and should be left intact, if not expanded...
Healy began his career in administration as Sullivan's assistant, first in Lowell, and later in Cambridge. He says he still follows Sullivan's plan of broadening the tax base to fund city services...
...really no competition for the much stronger Crimson and Huskies. They are club teams and are treated as such, receiving no funding from their athletic departments. B.U.'s team is sponsored by the Student Activities Fund and the Department of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, while B.C.'s team supports itself...
Doss practices a mean work ethic himself. After the meeting with fund raisers, he critiques game films, takes a conference call from Upward Bound girls on campus visits, and works on funding proposals in his living room. There's a curiously unfinished look here: unpapered walls, some exposed studs, sparse furniture. When a cash crunch hit the academy, he and Aline diverted second-mortgage money intended for remodeling and refurnishing. "Hey," he shrugs, "it'll get fixed someday...