Word: funding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite to win the primary, Carter has moved quickly to pick up the endorsements of four of the five major New York City Democratic leaders and the mayors of the state's major cities. He also has the assistance of Governor Hugh Carey's organization in raising funds. Although Kennedy picked up half a million dollars at a Manhattan fund raiser, his speech was so lackluster that many of his supporters were disappointed...
...friends of friends. "Literally every attorney I know in Georgia who does any criminal work at all has a death case," she says. Usually Morris is forced to seek out-of-state lawyers for petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, often with the help of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the New York City-based civil rights group that has led the legal assault against capital punishment since the mid-'60s. The fund's lawyers, themselves, represent about 50 prisoners nationwide...
...also asserts that he covered the bills for expensive junkets taken by managers, their wives and women friends. He claims to have provided cash for gambling trips to Las Vegas, including $2,500 that was supposed to be handed to a very high executive through an intermediary. His "training fund," says he, paid for a lavish party for the daughter of one company official and covered the one-month-only charge account at a top Atlanta department store for the fiancee of another. He contends that Amoco rigged contests at its dealer service stations, and relatives of company executives...
...biggest fund-raising effort at Brookfield has been for Olga, a 19-year-old, one-ton Atlantic walrus, who likes to squirt water at visitors. Because she is so expensive to keep, Brookfield is letting anyone share Olga for a donation of $15. So far the zoo has raised $13,000, enough to feed Olga 55 Ibs. of herring and mackerel a day throughout 1980. It also covers the expense of Olga's Christmas tree: a fir decorated with fish...
...government last tried to raise food prices (bread went to 2?), riots erupted that nearly toppled Sadat. But if the President is to get more foreign loans-he has said that Egypt will need $18.5 billion over the next five years-he needs the approval of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF has been pressing Egypt for economic reforms, particularly a cut in the subsidies, and it is sending a team to Cairo this month to see what progress has been made...