Word: funded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nepotism starts with Deng Xiaoping, whose eldest son, Deng Pufang, 44, heads the giant China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Government investigators say Pufang, who was crippled when Red Guards threw him from a window during the Cultural Revolution, allegedly helped a Chinese conglomerate gain tax-exempt status and reap vast profits for fraudulent work. Pufang denies the charges. The names of other relatives of leaders read like entries in a Chinese Who's Who. Among them: Chi Haotian, 59, Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and son-in-law of President Yang Shangkun; Li Tieying...
...with members of the Harvard faculty to teach women students. It is later incoporated as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. In 1894, Radcliffe College is officially established, named in honor of Ann Radcliffe, whose gift of œ100 in 1643 established Harvard's first scholarship fund...
...parent firm, will devote itself to developing the long-awaited Cray-3, a computer that will compete head on with the next generation of supermachines produced by Cray Research. "It's a stunning development," says Gary Smaby, an analyst with , Needham & Co. "For a company to set up and fund a direct competitor must be unprecedented...
...Harvard of our grandparents' generation was a Harvard that most of them could not have attended. People who were barred from attending this college--because of income, ethnicity or geography--in their youth should not be asked to fund...
Sorensen and some other professors advocate a system which would allow junior faculty to teach half the usual couse load, with half their salary coming from the department and half coming from a dean's fund for junior faculty research...