Word: funds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior class, which last year went for the apple-pie-and parenthood choice of Children Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, this year picked a woman who has lately rarely escaped the spotlight of controversy...
...apparent hesitation of American law-enforcement officials to involve their Russian counterparts comes at the same time that the White House finds itself under increasing criticism for having shoveled billions in aid to Moscow through the International Monetary Fund, much of which appears to have been siphoned off by criminal elements. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was quoted Wednesday as vowing to halt all further IMF aid to Russia until the Kremlin had provided satisfactory accounting for previous loans. Meanwhile, the Yeltsin administration?s performance over the issue hasn?t given Western law enforcement much cause for confidence. The best efforts...
...people he hired when it came to FBI background checks concerning illegal drug use. Bush was at first confused, and he gave his stock answer about not cataloging the sins of his distant past. Then he and his team piled into the motorcade to head for a fund raiser at the Fairmont Hotel...
...wasn't until after the New Orleans fund-raising dinner that night, as the entourage boarded a private jet for Roanoke, Va., that some advisers began to feel queasy. The logical follow-up question, they realized, would be, "What about during your father's Administration?" It was slowly dawning on them that the hole was just getting deeper. And that was even before checking the Dallas paper's website upon landing and seeing the nightmare headline: BUSH SAYS HE HASN'T USED DRUGS IN LAST SEVEN YEARS...
...raised nearly $7 million for AIDS relief and prevention. Says Ronald Johnson, managing director for public policy and communications at Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City: "What is significant is their fund raising does not compete with local AIDS service organizations. They tap basically new money, and that's very important...