Word: givers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Getty, not Texaco, was the Indian giver, he was not sued because Texaco in the merger contract agreed to assume liability for any legal actions arising from the purchase. Pennzoil's lawyers argued that Texaco must have known it was doing something wrong to offer such an inducement to Getty. Said Pennzoil Attorney Jamail: "Texaco purchased this lawsuit when they wrote insurance policies for the Getty people...
...universal national service might change all that. Donating your labor is a much more substantial sacrifice than any check, no matter how large. There is something much more human about labor that creates a bond between giver and receiver. With a year of service for our government, we may not feel the government owes us something, but we probably would care a whole lot more about what our government was doing. It's only natural. You don't sacrifice a year for your government without feeling you have a stake in it somehow...
...failure in school to homosexuality." Such skewed portraits deny the richness and the intensity of the connection. "Indeed," says Klein, "the tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. Fathers can mitigate or reinforce a mother's views, but she is the life-giver and, even in today's changing society, still the chief nurturing figure in the family. The bond is also more complex than the one between mother and daughter. For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence...
...Class Gift are not mutually exclusive: can't you just give a couple of dollars to Harvard, while giving most of it to E4D? Of course, this is the most telling line. Harvard does not really care about how much you give (except if you are designated a "special giver"). What Harvard cares about is that you give at least something to the class gift...
There is, of course, usually no formal deal between PAC's and legislators, just an understanding, but if a dairy association shows up at a candidate's fundraising party with a $5000 check, both the giver and the taker understand that the PAC is not rewarding him for a vote on foreign aid. The lobbyist is quite openly giving the money for a favorable vote on dairy legislation. PACs are throwing around a disproportionate amount of weight in Congress. As long as PACs can give with ease, Congressmen have to play the game and accept the badly needed campaign money...