Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shocking protest over his company's involvement in tobacco, the Big Fig Newton hangs up his green booties for good. RJR-Nabisco's new owners, the takeover giant Kohlberg, Kravitz and Roberts (a.k.a. Harvard's slush fund), fill his pointy shoes with another prominent ambassador of good will. "Indeed, it is a profound honor to assume such a prestigious post. It is a veritable step up the ladder, one might say," former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III tells Gourmet magazine...
House Majority Leader Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), a former Democratic state chair, said Shamie organized the party and outdid his predecessors in fund raising...
...state Republican Party raised $2.1 million. In this post-election year, fundraising is expected to decline to about $1.5 million, according to party spokesperson Michael Duffy. Last year Massachusetts led all other states in fund raising per registered Republican. The state's roughly 400,000 Republicans contributed an average of $5.40 cents each, Duffy said...
...total disgrace that in this here intellectual city, this city of letters...that we don't have books for the kids," Vellucci said, introducing a measure that would channel money from the development into a fund for new textbooks...
Robin's leukemia got Barbara involved in medical activities. She has been on the board of Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine since 1983, and she spearheaded a $15 million fund-raising drive there. Years ago, quietly, Barbara befriended a woman at a Washington hospice and went to see her every week for several years until she died. She went to Atlanta during a spate of murders of children to comfort the grieving mothers. For more than 30 years, she has visited cancer wards at Christmastime to play with children -- her way of honoring Robin...