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Davis has contributed millions of dollars to medical research. From 1978 to 1985, he and his wife Barbara were the hosts of Denver's annual Carousel Ball, a glittering, star-studded bash devoted to fund raising for diabetes research. (One of Davis' three daughters suffers from the disease.) Since moving to Beverly Hills in 1985, Davis has supported a string of California medical- research centers...
...prone. That is not the mood this time around -- at least, not yet -- and markets rarely hit their peak until all types of stocks are overbought, professionals become exuberant, and even small investors are snapping up stocks with abandon. Peter Lynch, manager of Fidelity's $11.5 billion Magellan mutual fund, recalls that "in the summer of 1987, torrents of cash were coming at us out of money-market funds." There is only a dribble this year...
According to The Phoenix, Drisdell did not know Walsh at the time of the loan, but was directed to him by City Solicitor Russell B. Higley. Drisdell needed a 90-day bridge loan to allow him to fund the purchase and repair of a new house in Somerville...
...aftermath of the Soweto uprising of 1976. The brutal government crackdown following the protest prompted a group of liberal lawyers and professors to try to set up a free legal-aid service for blacks. U.S. lawyer Jack Greenberg, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helped design a program. With money mainly from American foundations, the LRC was founded in 1978. Since then, it has grown from a staff of three full-time lawyers with a $100,000 budget to 30 lawyers, half of them white, and a budget of $2 million...
...domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional, so Parliament can and does deprive citizens of their rights by passing statutes that the courts are unable to reject. Says Julius Chambers, Greenberg's successor at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "The law has provided some limited protection, but you're not going to have any major breakthroughs until you have a changed constitution...