Word: donor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from outer space. It is actually an enlarged facsimile of a Polaroid Land Camera, honoring the man who donated a fortune to build the science center. A rare breed of benefactor, Land asked that the monstrosity not bear his name, so that no one could identify him as the donor...
...kooks won," said the chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom as Maddox snared the nomination, dashing any hopes for conservative unity this fall. And so the articulate smoothies of the Right took their money, donor lists, and relatively rational following and left Chicago a day early--their hopes buried in a large pile of Lester Maddox's racially symbolic pickhandles--pickhandles with which Maddox had little hope of denting fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter's armor...
Teddy has done neither. Every sign of possible recovery has been quickly followed by a setback. To make matters worse, the chances of a successful bone-marrow transplant, a technique employed sometimes in aplastic anemia and occasionally in leukemia cases, faded when the likeliest donor, Teddy's sister Elizabeth, 9, turned out to have a distinctly different marrow type...
Simple Solution. Their hand-to-mouth existence results partly from new federal laws that, politically speaking, make fat cats almost an extinct species by limiting political contributions to $1,000 from each donor. More immediately responsible is congressional failure so far to rescue the Federal Election Commission from its court-imposed limbo. Under the new laws, the commission was to distribute federal funds to the candidates according to a simple formula: every dollar a candidate could raise in contributions of $250 or less would be matched by the Federal Government. In January, the Supreme Court held that the commission could...
...Development Office has an alumnus worth several million dollars to the project on the line right now. But they can't reel him in just yet; he's holding out pending his son's acceptance to Harvard. This year, another potential donor may kick in a fairly large sum, once he's assured that a building will bear his name...