Word: funded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...halted while the legal outcome was pending. Although Citgo-lovers were not able to persuade the powers that be to classify the sign as the newest historical hot spot on the Boston map of stars, the Citgo Corporation decided that it was in fact in their best interest to fund the renovation--totaling $450,000--and upkeep of the sign for the next three years...
...recent Tuesday evening, I ate dinner courtesy of the Harvard College Fund. In the phonathon that followed, I managed to raise enough money from 1951 classmates to pay for the dinner, with some left over for future meals and other uses...
...dubious purposes such as those fueled by political correctness. For having done what I considered a good deed, I was suddenly on the defensive. Was I a naif, unaware of what everybody on the inside knows, that Harvard is foisting on its alums a fund-raising scam? Perhaps those snooty Faculty classmates were right in ridiculing my expectation that they should be expected to contribute...
Despite the leadership's desire to be fiscally independent, the organization has been forced to take out loans from both Harvard and a local bank to fund its ongoing programs...
Besides using the money to fund student groups or "immediate gratification" events, students should consider putting the funds toward longer-term projects that the College has been unwilling to devote its own funds--things like the renovation of the embarassingly out-of-date Malkin Athletic Center. And although $40,000 is peanuts given the cost of constructing a new, real student center, a donation to the cause would be a symbolic step that would certainly get the attention of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has voiced support for constructing a "College Hall" on the site...