Word: sponsorship
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Hoping to find an AZT regimen they could afford, African researchers sought sponsorship from U.S. health agencies and launched a number of scientific studies in which some mothers were given short treatments with AZT and some, for the purpose of comparison, received a placebo. It is the inclusion of these placebo groups that the critics find objectionable. Giving a sugar pill to an AIDS patient is considered ethically unacceptable in the U.S. To give one to a pregnant African, Dr. Angell writes, shows a "callous disregard of [a patient's] welfare for the sake of research goals...
...moderate? A moderate President, no less? In Iran? Western officials, trying to cope with Iran's sponsorship of terrorism, opposition to the Middle East peace process and development of nuclear weapons, are understandably wary of the thought. Yet, for once, Iranians had been offered a real choice, not a stage-managed election rigged for a handpicked President. No politician symbolized the hold of the incumbent clerics more than Nateq-Noori. His supporters provoked widespread anger by physically breaking up a Khatami speech, getting police to cancel a major rally and using a technicality to close down Khatami's election headquarters...
...guidelines listed for sponsorship were artistic innovation and a wide appeal among the student body. Programs initiated by organizations less than three years old were favored...
...other business, the council established an internal position for a sponsorship and Fundraising Coordinator...
Supporters pointed to Spring Fling, which was sponsored by companies such as Kinkos and Mail Boxes, Etc., as an example of the effectiveness of corporate sponsorship...