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...travel agency, an art gallery. The quirky architect will not have to worry about professional stature any longer. Last week, a few days after his 51st birthday, Hollein was awarded the seventh annual Pritzker Architecture Prize, the closest thing in the field to a Nobel. The prize, established and underwritten by Chicago Multimillionaire Jay Pritzker, comes with a tax-free gift...
Indeed, Suarez is said to be a great benefactor. A wealthy cattleman with vast lands in Bolivia's Beni region, he reportedly has underwritten most of the education costs for an entire district and regularly provides technical or college education abroad for young people in the area. Little wonder, then, that when Suarez had appendicitis two years ago, he was able to slip into the hospital in Santa Cruz (pop. 376,000), his hometown in Bolivia's Oriente region, for treatment. "The authorities were searching for him," explains one of Suarez's friends, "but the whole town conspired to protect...
...sports promotion firm Trans World International, came up with the idea of an Ivy Group football package soon after the ruling. The plan's intention was not to displace Rose Bowl contenders from their commercial network homes, but rather to put the Ivy games on public, television, underwritten by corporate philanthropy a la "Masterpiece Theatre" or "Alastair Cooke's America." The Ivy Group, the official organization representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and II, Penn, agreed, and thus was born the Public Broad casting Service's "Ivy Game of the Week." The first season saw the games...
...experimental" and therefore not funded by insurance. Fineberg has proposed that procedures such as heart and liver transplants, which today fall somewhere between the two traditional categories, be given a label of their own--he calls it "investigational." Whether or not and to what degree these oprations would be underwritten, and how they would receive priority in various scenarios would be determined by a national commission including health professional, policymakers and consumers. This suggestion stands in stark contrast to calls to leave such decisions strictly under the aegis of doctors...
...first of all, the Harvard sports teams are not underwritten by any soap company...