Word: gifts
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...least, quite great enough to be abused; that is, if I were the kind of man to do so and if the American political system permitted wealth to be used uncontrollably." But he maintained that "political authority is not for sale in America. [It] comes only from the free gift of the people when they vote for you." Poverty, too, he went on, "can blind a man or a woman. Some never rise above the hungry resentments of early hardships. Others never rise above a merely regional background to achieve a national viewpoint. I believe that my 40-year public...
Before moving to the Treasury Department, Morgan served as deputy counsel to President Nixon. There he helped prepare a backdated deed and other papers in an attempt to support a tax deduction of $576,000 for the gift to the Government of Nixon's prepresi-dential papers. The deduction was later disallowed by IRS and declared invalid by Congress's Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. The IRS levied a 5% negligence penalty against Nixon but passed an investigation of fraud on to the special prosecutor...
...Gift of Life. Establishing an all-volunteer system is not easy. Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, which used to buy 40% of its blood, is going all-volunteer despite the difficulty. The hospital sought donations from hospital staffers and then turned to the families of obstetrics patients, who rarely need blood transfusions as a result of childbirth. Doctors at Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital tried a different tack. Rejecting the idea of bloodmobiles ("They're like Vikings pillaging rural neighborhoods and carting the blood back to the city"), Dr. H.J. Rothenberg II obtained a list...
...volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope. The biggest gift came two weeks ago: a $76,000 grant from New York's Research Corporation. "I could teach a graduate level course in scrounging," says Albert Merville, 34, who combed the West Coast seeking benefactors. The six still have a long way to go in raising funds for the observatory...
...before us. Not for the good, necessarily. O'Casey had as sharp an eye as James Joyce for the foibles of his race, though it sometimes brimmed with an un-Joycean compassion. He knew the perils of being priest-ridden, the curse of drink, the terrible gift of hurting one another that has remained constant from the 1916 "Troubles" to the present sad day. Yet he set it all down to the ineffable music of English that rarely sounds sweeter than it does on the Irish tongue. And he relished the Irish fondness for gossipmongering, playacting, and scenemaking that...