Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armand Quiros, 58, and his wife Lois of Santa Barbara, Calif., had given up hope of ever owning a home in their neighborhood, where the average price is $191,768. But last week they broke ground on a new two-bedroom duplex, thanks to Homes for People, a private nonprofit agency that locates low-interest loans and inexpensive materials for people willing to contribute labor to the construction of their houses. The Quiros family will put in 16 hours a week: he doing carpentry and general cleanup, she as a volunteer worker in the Homes for People office. The Owner...
...Plains, CAN provides free rides on corporate aircraft for cancer patients, either singly or in groups, to and from hospitals across the U.S. CAN uses a computer to match lists of all the flights that corporations will be making with the departure and destination cities requested by patients. A nonprofit organization begun in 1981, CAN in its first year flew 24 patients; it now arranges that many trips each month. So far, CAN has flown 259 sick people, many of them accompanied by a companion, more than 600,000 miles. Last month CAN won the President's Volunteer Action...
Officials at the hospital said three points must be included in any proposal if it is to be acceptable, the hospital must remain nonprofit, it must still be owned by the McLean Hospital Corporation, and the hospital's governance must remain essentially unchanged...
...feast," So declared New York Lawyer Floyd Abrams last week after the Supreme Court handed the U.S. press its first major libel victory in more than a decade. The case involved Consumers Union, the publisher of the product-rating magazine Consumer Reports (estimated circ. 3 million). The nonprofit organization had lost a $210,000 libel judgment to Bose Corp., a Massachusetts electronics manufacturer, for a 1970 article that criticized one of the firm's loudspeakers. A federal appeals court overturned the award in November 1982. The Supreme Court upheld that decision by a 6-to-3 vote...
...Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit Washington research organization, charges that the combined income and Social Security tax burden has nearly doubled for a family of four at the official Government poverty line. In 1980 such a family earned $8,410 and paid 5.4% of its income in federal taxes. By 1983 inflation had pushed the poverty-line income to $10,166, and a family at that level paid an estimated 9.8% of its earnings in taxes...