Word: funds
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Congress last year created a $30 million emergency fund for AIDS patients who were unable to afford the high cost (about $8,000 a year) of AZT, the only FDA-approved drug known to prolong their lives. It did so on the unusual condition that the measure's sponsors would not try to renew the funding. For the 6,000 beneficiaries so far, a new crisis is at hand: although various states still have some of this money left, the federal program will end on Sept. 30 and a new grant is doubtful...
Late last year Congress passed a FSLIC rescue package allowing the agency to issue securities that will raise $10.8 billion in three years. Chairman Danny Wall of the Bank Board estimates that with the $10.8 billion and premiums from member institutions, the insurance fund will bring in nearly $30 billion during the next decade -- almost enough to take care of all the insolvent S and Ls. But other experts are not so optimistic. The FDIC's Seidman has told Congress the bailout figure could reach $50 billion, and some analysts put it as high as $100 billion. Few people believe...
Increased administrative pressures also discourage many scholars. As costs of running law schools have soared, deans spend as much as a third of their time fund raising. Compensation is another sore point. While a professor typically earns $65,000 to $90,000 for nine months of service and the average dean receives $90,000 to $150,000 for a year's work, a star prof at a blue- ribbon school can pull in as much as $200,000 extra in consulting fees. Deans are not only frequently discouraged from moonlighting, they simply have no time...
...other hand, if you want to see what is really happening, get in touch with Michael Stewartt, the chief pilot, troublemaker, idea man and fund raiser of an extraordinary environmental flying service called Project Lighthawk. Just now a couple of local environmentalists, a journalist and Stewartt are aboard one of Lighthawk's two Cessna 210s. Stewartt, a lean, relaxed fellow of 38, with a bushy light brown mustache and hair to match, radios his plane's identification to the control tower at Seattle's Boeing Field...
...priest? Why, virtually everything Powers had written till then had been about Roman Catholic clergymen in out-of-the-way Midwestern parishes. He had established himself as an uncannily intimate chronicler of their workaday / lives away from the altar: their immersions in church politics and fund raising, their intramural feuds and poker-table cronyism, their struggles with vinegary housekeepers, booze and loneliness. Not that Powers by any means fell into the cozy category of "Catholic writer"; his vision, though compassionate, was too unsparing for that. Still, a Powers book without a priest would be like -- well, a John Cheever book...