Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharp says that while she prefers to work for nonprofit firms, she does not choose them based on any narrow agenda. She says only. "I want every company I work for to build for responsible action...
...system has failed Bobby in just about every way possible," says Sean O'Brien, Shaw's pro bono lawyer and the director of the nonprofit Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center. Notes Dr. Jonathan Pincus, chairman of Georgetown University's neurology department: "The greatest tragedy in this case is that he has a treatable disorder. If he had been diagnosed and treated properly, two victims would probably be alive, and he would not be on death...
...extremely innovative. When Doc McGhee, the former manager of rock bands Motley Crue and Bon Jovi, was convicted of marijuana smuggling in North Carolina, he faced a tough judge and an aggressive prosecutor. He pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Consultant Hoelter, whose nonprofit firm handles about 750 cases a year as well as sentence reductions in capital crimes, came up with the idea that McGhee should stage rock concerts to raise money for drug-treatment programs. Thus was the Make a Difference Foundation born. It has since put on major concerts in Moscow...
Under the agreement, the nonprofit family-planning group is charged with the daunting task of finding a company willing to make the pill, as well as with setting up clinical tests in 2,000 American women, though 120,000 women have already received RU 486 from clinics in France, Britain and Sweden. Approval for marketing is years away...
...party it is. With new material from Sondheim, designs by three Tony winners, choreography by Bob Avian (A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon) and a cast headed by Julie Andrews in her first New York stage appearance since Camelot in 1961, the show seems absurdly overabundant for its venue, a nonprofit house seating 299. But then, impresario Cameron Mackintosh (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) has been showing up night after night, pondering a transfer when the sold-out run ends May 23. Mackintosh, the wealthiest producer in theater history, launched his U.S. career with Side by Side, and is keen...