Word: trusts
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...Unlike most companies, particularly foodmaker Kraft, which is also considering a bid for Cadbury, Hershey is controlled not by investors but by a charitable trust, established a century ago by company founder Milton Hershey to fund the education of orphans. The Hershey Trust, which holds 80% of the voting stock of the candy company, runs the Milton Hershey School not far from the corporate headquarters in central Pennsylvania, and it is required to maintain it in perpetuity. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...today's hard economic times, something startling began showing up in public-opinion polls: fewer people than in the past wanted Washington to step in. In the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, only 23% of respondents said they trust the government "always or most of the time"--the smallest proportion in 12 years. The percentage of voters who think government should "do more to solve problems and meet the needs of people" has dropped 5 points since Obama's first weeks in office, while that of those who think government should leave more things "to businesses" rose 8 points...
...share his love for the environment, Zofnass said he began developing the land adjacent to his barn outside New York City into a land trust preserve in 1985. In 2001, he opened the Westchester Wilderness Walk, a 150-acre sanctuary that includes a 10-mile trail...
Philip M. Cronin ’53, a Crimson trustee, told Duehay that he would receive support from the trust for funding a plaque and a ceremony commemorating Halberstam and the naming of the new park...
...close by. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. "I am the gay doctor," the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. He talked about the gay and lesbian couples who go to his office to avoid ridicule in public hospitals. "They know they can trust me, and trust is a big issue," he said. "There is the stigma of being gay, but also the stigma of being [HIV] positive. They are such hidden communities. Nobody wants to deal with their problems...