Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walk for Hunger spokesperson Denise Goros said walkers recorded a record $3.5 million in pledges, which topped last year's effort by 35 percent. While Goros couldn't predict how much of the pledged money the organization would actually receive, she said they usually get 80 to 90 percent from sponsors...
Participants raise money by canvassing relatives, friends and colleagues, to sponsor their walk. Pledges are ordinarily collected after the event, and mailed to Project Bread...
What would it take, they were asked, to make that dream a reality? Money from Congress, of course. University of Utah President Chase Peterson, who was right there at the scientists' side, suggested that $25 million would be a nice sum to help his school set up a fusion research center. Some of the Congressmen appeared eager to oblige. "Today," rhapsodized Robert Roe, a New Jersey Democrat, "we may be poised on the threshold of a new era. It is possible that we may be witnessing the cold-fusion revolution...
...Harvard thinks they're in the business of money," Bozzotto said. "We know they're in the business of education...
Wheeler argued that "ROTC only wants to be granted the same access rights to the campus as other groups," and added that Harvard gladly accepts money for military research projects...