Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the doubled budget will go to fund the council's grants to student groups, bringing them from $35,000 to $80,000 a year. The council's finance committee ended the year developing new guidelines to determine how they will distribute the new money...
Sometimes Rodriguez has garnered financial support from fellowships and research grants. Other times she has managed to scrape money together from outside sources--a strategy she first utilized when her football-crazy high school refused to allocate any money to fund her trip to a national speech competition...
...Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board of the Culture Fund, the first since Lenin's wife to hold a prominent public position. Her frosty intellect, sharp tongue and relatively lavish habits are the talk of Moscow. Almost from the day in 1985 when her husband took over as General Secretary of the Communist Party, Raisa Gorbachev has been...
...General Secretary is likely to tread softly. But he has not given up on pushing his wife forward, perhaps to demonstrate in the most personal terms that he is intent on improving the lot of women. Since 1987, for example, she has been a director of the Culture Fund, a potentially influential body in charge of historical preservation and one that is independent of the Ministry of Culture...
...rights in Egypt and similar intervention at the Interior Department to influence the award of gas leases to a company in which Wright had a $15,000 investment. Wright is said to have sought special help for a savings and loan in Texas headed by one of his largest fund raisers. A recent allegation concerns 55% book royalties (10% to 15% is standard) that Wright has received for a cut-and-paste collection of speeches and anecdotes published by Texas Friend William Carlos Moore. Over the past 13 years, Moore's businesses have received some $634,000 in consulting fees...