Word: earmarking
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REALISM WAS EXACTLY WHAT THE PEOPLE who cooked up the commission had in mind when they set the bipartisan operation in motion more than a year ago. The review began as an earmark--a $1 million insertion into an appropriations bill by Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia, who had gone to Iraq last year and decided U.S. policy wasn't working or, as he put it, needed "fresh eyes." He slotted the money to the U.S. Institute of Peace, whose president, Richard Solomon, joined two CEOs Wolf trusted to organize the study: David Abshire, of the Center...
...Burns trumpets his seniority and his seat on the Appropriations Committee, which he has used to earmark many millions of dollars for Montana projects...
...directing the federal money to non-profit groups that have since supported his campaign. The FBI inquiry is ongoing, but Mollohan has vigorously denied wrongdoing, saying the funds were well spent in hard-pressed West Virginia. In recent years, Mollohan has used his seat on the appropriations committee to earmark funds for dozens of projects, including nearly $2.8 million in 2003 for a law enforcement training center and $3 million in 2004 for a high-tech recycling center in his district...
...disbursals for an unknown purpose. Unthinkable? Not if the ‘government’ is Harvard University and the recipients are student groups. On Sep. 7, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin announced that student groups’ donor gift accounts, which allow alumni to earmark their Harvard donations for specific student groups, will face a 15 percent tax on all withdrawals. The tax will start at 5 percent this fiscal year and rise an additional 5 percent per year to 15 percent in the 2009 fiscal year, and this year’s tax is retroactive...
...first documented cases of AIDS 25 years ago among gay men and drug users, many Evangelicals assumed the epidemic was not their problem. Evangelist Franklin Graham--son of Billy, father of four, grandfather of four--helped to change that attitude and to persuade the Bush Administration in 2003 to earmark $15 billion for the struggle against AIDS. Graham, 53, spoke with TIME's Christine Gorman about AIDS, Darfur and motorcycles...