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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee all but ignored protests from cigarette manufacturers. Despite giving more than $12 million since 1995 to the Republican Party and G.O.P. candidates and spending record sums on Ermenegildo Zegna-clad lawyers, the once mighty tobacco lobby has lost almost all its clout in Congress. Quipped a G.O.P. fund raiser: "Twelve million doesn't buy what it used to." McCain wasn't so sympathetic either. He was convinced that once the companies realized that the deal would only get worse for them the longer they held out, they would come aboard. Not that the fight is over. "Keep a steady...
These centers ground this busy KSG experience in solid research. The nine centers are like think tanks: they are diverse both in their subject of study and their methods of studying it. Some sponsor courses, others mainly fund faculty research or sponsor lectures. Sometimes, many of these are united under the same center...
Members of the advisory board choose to fund the center partly because of its affiliation with Harvard, which gives the research a context, according to Repsinas...
Foundation grants, rather than for-profit institutions, fund most of the other centers...
...They apply as individual faculty members and researchers. They like to do it this way," Falkenrath says. The center provides a financial office and an accountant and the institutional recognition and name value that convince foundations to fund faculty projects...