Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tobacco companies? Now a prime suspect has emerged: former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Two Republican Party officials told Time last week that Barbour, now a millionaire tobacco lobbyist, had gone to House Speaker Newt Gingrich and majority leader Trent Lott and persuaded them to slip a giant gift to his clients into the must-pass balanced-budget agreement just minutes before it was inked. For weeks it looked as if the two g.o.p. leaders had pulled off a classic fix: looting the general Treasury in the interest of a specific client with a laser-like incursion into...
...realize its rank at the time he chose the billion-dollar figure. He prefers to focus on how important it is for wealthy people to share their bounty when "the world is just awash in money" because of rising stock markets. And Turner says he hopes his gift will encourage others to support the U.N. and the programs it operates worldwide, which range from removing land mines to providing inoculations for children...
...million endowment for the chair was the gift of Elisabeth A. Hobbs and Emily Fisher, both of whom are GSE alumni and two other female donors who wished to remain anonymous...
...also necessary to note that the Class Marshal position is not directly a fund-raising one, however, it is important that the Marshals encourage the Class to make the fund raising effort a successful one and to support the individual solicitations which are handled by the Gift Co-Chairs who will work closely with the Senior Gift Office...
...petition with the signatures of ten classmates to the Harvard Alumni Office on the third floor of Wadsworth House by 3:00 PM, Thursday, October 16,1997. After the election of the Class Committee, the following week, the entire committee will participate in appointing the Class Secretary, Treasurer, and Gift Co-Chairs. Information about these important appointed positions may also be obtained at Wadsworth House...