Word: fundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that's the way it is." From policemen to Cabinet officers, officials routinely ask for and get bribes, ranging from the $2 that will persuade a traffic cop to tear up a ticket to the multimillion-dollar fraud allegedly perpetrated by the former head of a government tourist fund...
...this week's annual meeting in Belgrade of the finance ministers and central bankers of the 138-country International Monetary Fund, another step may be taken to dethrone the dollar as the world's chief reserve currency, and replace it with a collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there...
...remaining small slices of the $20 million "reshaping" pie will go toward endowing both the Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning and Rosovsky's teaching innovation fund, and toward renovating classrooms and purchasing teaching equipment...
Another $1 million will endow a fund for teaching innovations administered by Bowersock. He hands out about $50,000 a year--now taken from the Faculty's unrestricted income--to teachers who need money to introduce unorthodox teaching materials or class activities. John Bohstedt, former assistant professor of history, took his class on on industrial history on a trip to industrial museums in western Massachusetts on such a grant...
...fulfill that goal, the BSA's executive council voted early in the week to sponsor a fund-raising party for the Darryl Williams Trust Fund and to encourage students to attend a protest rally at City Hall...