Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...duties of class marshal, a permanent office, include planning senior activities for Commencement week and other social events during the year, serving as the unofficial co-presidents and vice presidents in the class' reunion tenure and supporting the Gift Office's fund-raising effort...
...Boisrouvray's gift also provides for the Bagnoud professor of health and human rights. Jonathan Mann is the first person to hold that chair
...most powerful people in the executive branch. Searching desperately for a provocative, newsworthy question to ask him, my mind goes blank. Before I can pull myself together, two HRTV people whisk him away to do an interview. Their camera looks remarkably like the palmcorder my parents received as a gift for their 20th anniversary...
Last week's economic news seemed to come gift-wrapped for the White House: unemployment fell steeply and unexpectedly to 5.1% in August, the lowest it's been since 1989. Yet with more people working and paychecks fattening, the alarm bells in the inflation firehouse known as the Federal Reserve Bank must be going off. Some economists believe that inflation is inevitable when the unemployment rate drops below 6%, because wages rise as the labor market tightens. Average hourly earnings in August rose by 0.5%, bringing wage increases over the past year to 3.6%. Throw in the torrid...
...gift, the sixth-largest in the University's history, is atypical of the way large donors have generally allocated funds up to this point. Instead of earmarking his donation for a particular school or project, Lee gave Harvard unprecedented freedom in allocating the donation, classing $19 million of it as unrestricted funds...