Word: stares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Defending the Nutrition Department's use of corporate funds, Stare said virtually all such gifts are offered without restriction: a grant from a sugar company, for example, would not be for a particular research project...
...chairman, Stare said, he allocated the gifts either to the department's 19-year-old endowment, which now totals about $7 million, or to its fund for research and teaching, which is part of the department's annual operating budget. According to Stare, this constituted between 5 to 7 per cent of the operating budget of about $3 million, and much of it is used for student scholarships. Later in the year, after the department's budgetary needs grew more certain, Stare would transfer more of the gift money into the endowment. The total effect of this method, Stare argued...
...chairman, Stare had an involved set of steps and strategies for deciding what outside funds and commitments to accept. He gave the department royalties from his books (such as Panic in the Pantry, whose sequel will be titled Danger in the Dining Room,) payment for his syndicated nutrition column, and editorial fees larger than about $500. The total given, he says, has amounted to about $100,000 over the last ten years...
...Stare retains the money he receives as a director of the packaging company, Continental Can (between $6000 and $7000), and as a retainer for Kellogg, Nabisco and the industry-supported Cereal Institute...
This money, which Stare says totals about $10,000 a year (a quarter of his University salary of $40,000), is the most controversial he handles: consumer advocates criticized these ties after his report to a Senate subcommittee in 1971 calling breakfast cereals "good foods" because they contain less saturated fat and cholesterol than other breakfast foods...