Word: sponsorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason for the business class upgrade? It's simple, at least according to Texan racing legend A.J. Foyt, who says it's all the big corporate sponsorship money. "It brought in all those Ivy League boys who like wine. I'm not into that crap. Wine, that...
...Freshman Dean’s Office,” Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship member Meghan E. Grizzle ’07 said. Sarah M. Kinsella ’07—the co-president of True Love Revolution, a pro-abstinence group on campus—called the administration sponsorship “inappropriate.” “I don’t see why Harvard is promoting the ‘Hooking Up’ talk, because I don’t think it encourages the safest behavior,” she said before last night?...
...tends to focus on the big picture. Shi'ites are now politically dominant in Iraq, and Iran is the leading Shi'ite power. So in most Arab capitals, the sectarian war in Iraq is increasingly blamed on Iran. Taken along with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions, Iran's sponsorship of the Shi'ite Hizballah militia in Lebanon and its backing of Hamas, Iran's supposed meddling in Iraq is proof to Arab leaders that their old Persian rivals are determined to reshape the Middle East to suit their own interest...
...months into Blair's premiership, Labour was forced to return a $1.7 million donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
...city's sponsorship of the Gay Games last summer gave him a taste of the reflected glory that comes from hosting a complex and successful array of international sporting events. Those games "moved without any controversy - and that says a lot," the mayor noted. If Daley does succeed in his Olympics bid, he may well still be in charge when it's time to greet the athletes nine years from...