Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe announced last week that it has received a "six figure" donation from the Business School--the first gift to the new Radcliffe Institute from another division of the University...
Wilson said she can remember only one other occasion during her nearly 10-year long presidential tenure that Radcliffe has received a gift from another University--a five-figure sum given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences when Radcliffe began to put together the Lyman Common Room...
...talent sealed the deal. "The politician was in him," says Jim McAninch, who ran Bush's drilling operations in the early days. "He was a great promoter and a great money raiser." He also had, as a former colleague puts it, "a photogenic memory"--a malapropism that captures his gift for the social side of life, his Clintonian ability to remember names of countless people he has met only briefly...
...back. Albert Merrill, 55, a former clerical worker, holds out his 28-day pin and six-month coin, and next month will pass his first year sober. He dreams of the day when he can walk back into the life of his ex-wife and kids. "This is a gift," he says quietly of his diploma...
...Yeltsin?s gift will provide yet more material to peruse and assess, and will thus help maintain the Kennedy assassination industry as a going concern. But an intriguing question is whether Yeltsin?s gift also represents a hidden Russian domestic agenda. "Yeltsin may have done this to score points against one or another of his enemies from the former Soviet Union," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The Russian press has reported in the past that Russian intelligence opposed the release of the JFK files, for fear the documents might reveal too much about itself. For the moment...