Word: funded
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Oxfam America is a nonprofit international agency which funds development programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America. Maureen Koopman, an Oxfam official, said that the donated money will go into the organization's general fund...
Each year, several hundred athletes in major sports visit Harvard for a weekend, with the tab picked up by a special fund contributed by alumni...
Undergraduates, who fund the council with $10 term bill fees, should not have to watch their student government squander an opportunity to influence the way Harvard enforces the standards it sets for students. The council voted Sunday night to approve the plan if the Faculty accepts eight amendments the council proposed. The council should revoke this provisional approval and demand real reform. The council should call for--and help draft--a law code that attempts to reconcile the competing interests of the Harvard community. Then the council should respectfully but firmly advance the code to administrators...
Hugh Lamprey, of the World Wildlife Fund, flies in to Merz's sanctuary that morning to ask her to accept another baby rhino, which was just orphaned by poachers in the Masai Mara. Lamprey is a mandarin who urbanely calls down apocalypse in a voice that sounds the way the finest, oldest brandy tastes. The visitor privately bestows a title upon him: the Duke of Extinction...
...average of 63% since 1980, and while elite Ivy League colleges still have more applicants than they can handle, some schools are spending more than $1,000 a week on television advertising. In Los Angeles, the University of Southern California has tripled its marketing staff and its scholarship fund since 1978. Says U.S.C. Director of Admissions Kathryn Forte: "I don't know where we'd be without the extensive marketing effort we've given to recruiting for the past five or six years." Says Douglas Thompson, dean of admissions at wealthy, selective Hamilton College in upstate New York: "There...