Word: haney
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...Energy Department granted $9 million in research funds to Molten Metal Technology, its chairman donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger Chair of Excellence in Global Environmental Studies. Knight, then actively lobbying the department for what was a nine-fold increase in the grants, thanked Molten chairman Bill Haney in a March 14 letter, calling the chair a "very personal priority for the Vice President" and adding, "I can assure you that your contribution will never be forgotten." Spokesmen for Gore, Knight, and Haney all deny any connection between the donations made on Nancy Gore's behalf...
...there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed $130,000 towards the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign managed by Knight...
...Energy department, Knight appears to have had an open door to Grumbly, who had worked for Gore in his congressional days. Records show extensive contacts between Knight, Haney and Grumbly...
...Haney and Lockheed gifts were among the largest of the $1 million raised by Gore and the university for the chair established 10 years after Nancy Gore Hunger died of lung cancer...
...Vice President formally set up the endowment May 2, 1994 in a ceremony at the Knoxville campus. He wrote Haney inviting him to the event and thanking him "from the bottom of my heart" for the contribution. In the margin was a handwritten note: "Thanks Bill! You will never know how much this means to me. You are a great friend...