Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of meeting the needs of our team," Bernal says. "We must give our athletes the opportunity to test themselves against top competition." In essence, the Crimson can't feast on the likes of Penn and Johns Hopkins all season, and then expect to switch gears for USC or Tennessee...
Today Kenya's economy is heavily dependent on foreign aid, which now totals $300 million a year, or about 10% of the country's gross national product. Explains an Agency for International Development economist stationed there: "People like to give money to Kenya. It's a sexy country...
According to the book, high managers were directed from above to give contributions to the company's political campaign fund in assigned amounts up to $3,000. The checks were made out to cash. Ranking executives made every effort to have their meal checks and other expenses picked up by obsequious subordinates so that if shareholders' inquired at the annual meeting, the brass could boast of modest expense accounts. Spying on a competitor was not unknown...
Some Cardinals wield personal power at the Vatican as members on the boards of various Curia offices. But a dozen or so Cardinals, all of whom live in Rome, have overwhelming influence through multiple membership on such boards. Regular gatherings of the entire college will give added power to the 72% of Cardinals who now live outside Rome, and provide the Pope with leverage against the Curial establishment...
...Auden now began to give readings of his poems at universities and colleges. He was one of the first poets to do so on a regular ... basis, and could fairly be said to have played his part in bringing into existence that traveling circuit which gave employment to so many poets, British and American, during the fifties and the sixties. He also made it known that he was available to lecture, provided that the fee was right. The lecture he gave at Harvard in 1947 on Don Quixote as part of a series commemorating the quatercentenary of the birth...