Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hefty donation has been given by Weatherhead, his wife, Celia and the Cleveland-based foundation to "strengthen, expand and endow" international studies at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), according to a press release...
...LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...
...addition, the Butler-Medearis Education Fund will raise money to endow a lectureship in his name, he added...
Topping the list this past quarter was Kathryn Albertson, the widow of a super-market-chain founder, who gave $660 million in stock to-unusually-primary and secondary schools in Idaho. Yet many of the weightier donations, including 19 of the top 29, went to universities to endow new chairs, pay for new student centers and fund additions to football stadiums...
Right now, finding donors to endow chairs is a major challenge. An ever-present reminder of the goal-and its accompanying obstacles-Murphy keeps a miniature wooden chair on the coffee table in his office...