Word: funded
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...another three months before the Clinton-Mondale association made headlines. On June 10, 1996, while Hillary was in Detroit, Mondale attended a Clinton fund-raiser at the Hollywood home of producer Lew Wasserman. Now clearly a name in her own right, she managed to upstage fellow celebs Barbra Streisand and Richard Baskin. Gossip columnists went wild over that alone -- "Streisand sulked because Clinton only had eyes for Eleanor," reported the Daily Mail. The Washington Post added that Mondale, Streisand and others joined Clinton in his private suite for a final drink, and "stayed up late with him nibbling fruit...
...established the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, emphasizing his commitment to their welfare...
...with the rest of the endowment, the Corporation, the University's chief governing board, will decide each year to spend a certain percentage of the fund...
While Household gave no specific guidelines for the spending of the $5 million, Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark said the "agreement in principle" is to devote the money to fund an endowed chair and financial aid programs came after consulting with Household executives and Law School administrators. Clark was enthusiastic about the recent gift, which he called a "terrific development...
...entire sum of outside scholarships will also now be put toward a reduction of a student's tuition burden. Under the old system, students could keep just 40 cents of every dollar won. The new system will relieve some of the burden currently placed on students to fund their own education through work or loans...