Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican National Committee, which has been dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as a result of the Iran-contra scandal, disappointment with the Republican loss of the Senate last fall, and too many aspiring presidential candidates trolling for money from the same supporters...
...Harvard police department has established a fund in behalf of a University security guard who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident earlier this month...
Dowling, who is handling all contributions, said the fund's primary purpose is to provide financial support for Fogarty during the months he will not receive pay. A benefit dance to be held at the Law School's Pound Hall in early October has also been scheduled, Dowling said...
North testified that the onetime NSC adviser authorized his fund raising and resupply efforts...
...billionth human. The baby boy received that designation rather arbitrarily. No one knows for sure when the earth's population, which hit 4 billion in 1974, actually topped the 5 billion mark, though demographers suspect it happened in July. Zagreb was picked as the location by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities largely because U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar happened to be in that city when the chosen day rolled around. In a speech marking the occasion, Perez de Cuellar drew attention to the fact that 90% of this year's 120 million births will occur...