Word: patronism
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...Lowell House production works on a $10,000 budget and includes a cast of 14, an orchestra of about 40 and close to 50 technical workers, says Producer David E. Carney '89. "Ticket sales and patron donations are our primary sources of income," he says...
...Nathan Lewin, one of Meese's personal lawyers, put the rosiest possible hue on McKay's announcement, saying he was "gratified" that the "most thorough investigation ever conducted of the personal finances of a public official . . . had been concluded at this time favorably to Attorney General Meese." Meese's patron, the President, once again asserted his confidence in his Attorney General...
Carol R. Goldberg, chief executive of the Stop and Shop supermarket chain and the seminar's patron, said yesterday that the city could use parks to improve citizens' lives by giving them more green space...
...ranch-house roof has been reinforced to resist mortar attack; large mesh screens cover the windows to repel grenades. Until recently as many as five bodyguards, paid a total of $800 a month, watched over Hull and his wife. This protection, says Hull, was provided by his stateside patron...
...support evaporated when the Iran-contra scandal broke last year, says Hull, and now el Patron is the target of major investigations and a controversial lawsuit in the U.S. "In the news media and absolutely nowhere else, I have been accused of being a CIA agent, a drug smuggler and an assassin," declared Hull in a statement he says he made last summer to the office of Iran-contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. "I can assure you that if the assassination charge were true, there are people walking the streets today that would have long since been six feet under...