Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million earmarked for the new building is just a small part of the $50 million which the Children's Hospital has been attempting to raise for development and expansion. This fund drive is the largest ever undertaken by any pediatric hospital...
...that all candidates will have the opportunity to speak on the same day in each of 23 towns, and the candidates will be ferried from place to place in a fleet of airplanes provided by the government. Saigon has also allotted each candidate $50,000 from a special election fund to help cover expenses (though hardly enough to conduct a national campaign), has allotted each candidate an equal number of posters and will also give each campaigner equal time on radio and TV to address the country...
...Telegraph Corp. is remarkable for his appetite. Since 1959, when he took charge of ITT with the intent of making it "one of the most important companies of the next decade," Geneen has swallowed up 44 smaller firms; they stretch across such diverse fields as auto rental (Avis), mutual-fund management (Hamilton), consumer finance (Aetna), book publishing (Bobbs-Merrill) and even airport parking. Though blocked so far by Justice Department antitrust litigation in his most ambitious effort-to acquire American Broadcasting Cos. -Geneen is still stalking new corporate game...
Economists do not like to contemplate the future of the welfare benefit system without full employment. Even without increased unemployment benefits the social security fund does not balance, and must be subsidized from other taxation. As it is, the government takes a whopping 7½% from everybody's pay packet to finance the welfare state; as the number of unemployed rises, there will be correspondingly fewer to contribute-and therefore higher charges for everyone else...
...successful was this undertaking that it was decided to conduct a fund drive to enable the College to memorialize the production on film. The faculty, administration and student body labored hard with a professional technical staff...