Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applies annually to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for funding of its 10 staff positions. But under the College report's proposals, President Neil L. Rudenstine would solicit funds from the University's ongoing capital campaign to endow funding for staff positions...
...show in which the majority of the pieces are similar in size and palette. (The Japanese version of the show, according to the catalogue, didn't include the contemporary works, and, without them, must have been painfully dull.) Contemporary artists grapple with mass-produced products as subjects, trying to endow them with the individuality that every flower or piece of fruit naturally possesses. Barnet Reubenstein's "Oyster Pails" of 1978-79 shows stacks of hundreds of Chinese take-out cartons; though in reality they are identical, Reubenstein uses variations of tone and shading to make each one unique...
Murphy says a strong fund drive will allow theschool to offer better financial aid packages andto endow more chairs...
...senior State Department official chose to pretend that it was, hoping to endow this minor action with some real, if dubious, importance in helping satisfy U.S. demands for "significant progress" in China's human-rights record. His reaction was one of a number of clues that President Clinton has decided against cracking down hard on China by cutting back trade. Another sign was a secret visit to Beijing by a special envoy, former Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost; his job reportedly was to coax the Chinese leaders into other concessions that the White House could seize on to justify that...
...Korea Foundation will contribute to the Korea Institute's administrative and operational expenses, will endow a chair in Korean literature, will fund two postdoctoral fellowships beginning in 1994-5 and will donate $50,000 annually to support graduate students working in Korean studies...