Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he shed the regimen of Orthodox life, he never lost his Jewish identity, and became an inexhaustible and intelligent philanthropist...
...Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of Utah, where he was a visiting scholar, for a series of lectures on evolution. Says Ghiselin: "I've become sort of a philanthropist myself. It allows me to share the wealth...
...correlation between money and having a great orchestra," says Richard Bibler, president of the promising Milwaukee Symphony, which gets by on a budget of about $5 million a year, "but there is a gross correlation." Says Patricia Corbett, who, like her husband J. Ralph Corbett, is a prominent Cincinnati philanthropist: "An orchestra can be anything you want it to be if you are willing to pay the budget...
...Corp.; of cancer; in New York City. Black parlayed a $250 investment hi a Broadway nut stand in the 1920s into a $116 million company that rests on a New York City chain of lunch counters, but now does 83% of its business nationally marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced,a bitter battle with dissident stockholders to retain control of his company. Speculation...
...younger Anderson was a prominent Boston-area philanthropist who worked as a diplomat in the Administration of then-President William Howard Taft, as an "envoy extraordinarie" to Belgium, Japan, and Rome...