Word: support
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Financial support from alumni is a vital component of financial aid and the University's academic programs. Without this support we would not have been able to maintain the current need-blind admission policy. Last year, for example, over $36 million were contributed by alumni to the Harvard College Fund. Restricted scholarship fund (donors "restricted" their use to scholarships) are the largest single source of our financial aid budget. Very nearly all of those funds--that together yield more than half of college financial aid-were established by alumni. In fact nine out of every 10 scholarship dollars are provided...
...years I have been traveling around the world to keep my fellow expatriates updated. We are also organizing to tell the people in Vietnam who want change that we are ready to support them from overseas, morally and financially...
...contest itself is less clear cut. Heseltine's challenge was only the latest proof of Thatcher's declining fortunes as her third term nears its end. She can lose even by winning. In last year's leadership ballot, 60 M.P.s voted against her or abstained. This time, Heseltine's supporters claim he will top 100, which would be a major blow to her authority. As the Times of London put it last week, "The country needs to know whether Mrs. Thatcher does or does not retain sufficient party support to remain a strong Prime Minister. If she does...
...prodigality leaves environmentalists seething about the direct-mail bombardment, which consumes millions of trees each year. Conservationists also fume that the discards amount to 3% of the total clutter in the nation's landfills. And just how do they try to enlist public support? By mail, of course. The environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth...
...African society, access to higher education is limited to those people living in urban areas. The majority of the population--including those with the potential to do well at college--must worry about earning an income to support the family well before any thoughts of higher education...