Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...donated $502,000 to the B-school, a gift which was then matched by a third party...
...that encourages students to visit these places and offers a new kind of flexibility in our meal plans. The arrival of liquidity in Harvard's board charge should be the first step towards changing the entire sum to multi-use credit. Crimson Cash is just another unexpected and delightful gift from Director of Dining Services "Mealtime Messiah" Michael P. Berry, whose creativity and continual openness to improvement have made a real impact on the quality of life at the College...
...campaign year, Washington and the rest of America are taking her more seriously than ever, though not in the way she hoped. As she set across the U.S. this week to promote her book on children's issues, what some people were asking, perhaps unfairly, is whether her real gift might be for fiction...
IMPORTANT LAWS ARE USUALLY FEStooned with special-interest baubles to ensure their passage. But sometimes the gift-giving frenzy embarrasses even lawmakers. Take, for example, the sweeping telecommunications legislation now before Congress. Tucked inside it is wording that could allow public airwaves worth as much as $70 billion to be handed over, free of charge, to existing U.S. television broadcasters at a free-market auction. Senate majority leader Bob Dole, hardly a sworn enemy of special interests, has blanched; last week he threatened to oppose the entire bill unless the giveaway is dropped...
...current renovations of Memorial Hall, and in fact such a proposal was anticipated by the original of the Hall. Dedicated to "the graduates and students of the University who died in defense of the Union, or who served in its defense during the Rebellion of 1861," the deed of gift included the stipulation that "no picture, bust, tablet, monument, or memorial shall be allowed within said Hall inconsistent with its intent." So it was until Edgar H. Wells, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, raised the issue in an editorial in the Bulletin in 1909, in which he argued that...