I'm not bankrolled by the corporatists, I'm not bankrolled by Goldman Sachs and Citibank and AIG and all the big brokers — brokerage houses and the billionaires.
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They also believe that billionaire George Soros bankrolled the caravan.
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Profits from the China trade bankrolled the American Industrial Revolution.
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Fantahorn has 15 employees and is entirely bankrolled by HTC.
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And the Gulf states have bankrolled their favored jihadist factions.
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The firm's first fund was bankrolled by Sood and Arora.
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By the numbers: The group was bankrolled by large donations.
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That's bankrolled school construction projects, youth literacy, and anti-bullying programs.
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Sergey Brin bankrolled MosaMeat, creator of the world's first clean burger.
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Glad Gates has full confidence in technology he's bankrolled, but.... blerch.
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In 2008, he bankrolled a campaign to unseat two county commissioners.
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The Vision Fund is bankrolled in part by the Saudi government.
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"Trump bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy," the narrator says.
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After all, they bankrolled my Get Out of Jail Free card.
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The answer: Many are bankrolled, to varying degrees, by their parents.
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Qatar bankrolled their campaigns and filled their coffers when they took power.
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Of course, if everything went swimmingly, Sony wouldn't have bankrolled a movie.
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Also, Blues is still small, using mostly contractors and bankrolled by Ozzie.
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The lawsuit, and two others against Gawker, was bankrolled by Peter Thiel.
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Most are bankrolled by overseas investors; all are stuffed with foreign talent.
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He's bankrolled multiple environmental ballot initiatives in California over the past decade.
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Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. Gawker.
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Mass rapes, child soldiers, and genocides have been bankrolled by the 3TG.
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In the other: Bellator, which is bankrolled by US media giant Viacom.
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Ireland bankrolled its bid for freedom with funds from its expatriate community.
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And they probably don't do it without being bankrolled by their parents.
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According to the contract, the $5 million was bankrolled by GOP donors.
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MI) and bankrolled the takeover of two regional lenders by Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.
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PT to include Thiel's admission that he bankrolled Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.
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On Friday, CNN reported that Parnas boasted of the "luxurious lifestyle" Firtash bankrolled.
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NetSuite was founded by a former employee of Oracle, bankrolled by Mr. Ellison.
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What's more, this investment surge is being bankrolled by an expanding credit binge.
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The Mountain That Eats Men bankrolled the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years.
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Orchard owners, whose families and businesses faced growing extortion threats, bankrolled the revolt.
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In 1994, she lost re-election to an opponent largely bankrolled by developers.
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Today we are told that everyone who attacks us is bankrolled by India.
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But, goes an old argument, hasn't art always been bankrolled by bad money?
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Thiel famously bankrolled a libel lawsuit that effectively bankrupted the gossip website Gawker.
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Bieber claims in new legal docs Schwartz bankrolled a pornographic company called Erotizen.
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Thiel bankrolled the lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gizmodo's parent company, Gawker Media.
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Thiel bankrolled the lawsuit that led to Gawker's bankruptcy and eventual shutdown in 2016.
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Not to mention that the man who had bankrolled it, Jack Warner, hated it.
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Woodhull was nominated by the Equal Rights Party at a convention that she bankrolled.
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A sign with Arabic suggests that the building is being bankrolled by foreign investment.
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During the campaign, anti-Trump forces from both parties by turns bankrolled Fusion's research.
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Schueller bankrolled the group and hosted its meetings in L'Oréal's headquarters, according to Cain.
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Arron Banks, who bankrolled the Brexit campaign, has a number of suspicious Russia connections.
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It would be bankrolled by private legal settlements with the men on the videos.
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Thiel secretly bankrolled Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker, and Hogan won in court.
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CNBC recently uncovered 990 tax documents showing Epstein bankrolled one of Wexner's earliest nonprofit organizations.
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Then it came out that Hogan's case was secretly bankrolled by venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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Other prominent Brexit supporters who bankrolled the campaign were more optimistic about the project's fate.
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Without the promise of being indefinitely bankrolled by Google, Fiber may be eager to expand.
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In May, Paris-based startup Kapten launched in the city, bankrolled by BMW and Daimler.
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And yes, the production has been handsomely bankrolled by the Russian telecom oligarch Sergey Adonyev.
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John McCain's (R-AZ) presidential campaign and bankrolled Republican operative Karl Rove's political nonprofit Crossroads GPS.
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Bankrolled by Perlmutter, Donnelly sued Peerenboom, claiming that he had slandered her at community board meetings.
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Adelson, the Koch Brothers and other figures have bankrolled many of the candidates in this race.
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Their production company bankrolled the U.K. comedy troop's 1971 film, And Now for Something Completely Different.
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HBO bankrolled the Mosaic app's development by tech company PodOp as part of producing the series.
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A local businessman, Louie Keen, bankrolled a newspaper, the Uranus Examiner, that was delivered for free.
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The training also comes at no cost to participants, and is bankrolled mostly from private donations.
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But the price of export commodities that had bankrolled leftist governments such as Venezuela's eventually collapsed.
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Each Afghan election, bankrolled by international donations, has proved at least as problematic as the last.
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Simply transform all Islamic militants into "narco-terrorists" who are bankrolled by the drug trade. Abracadabra!
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Outside groups including two bankrolled by Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein have spent $217 million pumping Rosendale's candidacy.
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Aero, which turns out to be a flying car company bankrolled by Google co-founder Larry Page.
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Recently, it was revealed that Hogan's legal case has been bankrolled by Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
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The book was basically bankrolled by the Mercers, and then handed off to the New York Times.
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook Inc and PayPal Holdings Inc, bankrolled Hogan's lawsuit.
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Thiel's own Founders Fund has bankrolled SpaceX, a company whose success has critically depended on government support.
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In peace the oil business dominated stockmarkets, bankrolled despots and propped up the economies of entire countries.
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After learning that Hulk Hogan's attorney's fees were bankrolled by billionaire Peter Thiel in the Bollea v.
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So, in 1974, Zaire won the Cup of Nations having been extensively bankrolled by Mobutu Sese Seko.
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But it was reinstated a year later after Ricketts personally bankrolled a referendum to bring it back.
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Apple TV+ is a $4.99-per-month service featuring original TV shows and movies bankrolled by Apple.
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They were the first American team to join the N.H.L., bankrolled by the grocery magnate Charles Adams.
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Rupert Murdoch, the Fox mogul, bankrolled Ailes's furious vision in America while imposing his own in Britain.
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Hogan's suit was bankrolled by Peter Thiel, a billionaire whom Gawker had outed as gay in 2007.
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Tutors and college counselors are bankrolled, as well as years of extracurriculars to help those applications shine.
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Some of the cases on CrowdJustice would have been brought anyway, possibly bankrolled by a few rich people.
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In a 28500 investigation, Politico documented one lawyer's quest to prove Saudi Arabia bankrolled the 6900/2628 attacks.
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They provide low- or no-cost outpatient treatment for veterans and their family members bankrolled by Cohen's contribution.
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I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities.
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And what that means is that some random ass ballers are getting bankrolled in the free agency period.
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Hogan went on to sue Gawker, in a suit bankrolled by venture capitalist and tech guru Peter Thiel.
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I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.
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Members of important progressive organizations bankrolled candidates ranging from progressive Rob Quist to buttoned-down moderate Jon Ossoff.
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That's when he dragged Rob Kardashian into the mix ... saying Rob only bankrolled ONE, referring to Blac Chyna.
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Disclosure: In 2016, Thiel secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media resulting in the company's bankruptcy.
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Blonde and bright as ever, Anna Camp plays Jane Hollander, a brilliant young woman being bankrolled by her father.
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But Braun was the one who found Bieber on YouTube, bankrolled his inchoate career, and whipped him into stardom.
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Their crime, say prosecutors, was to have bankrolled the Gulen movement, a religious sect accused of masterminding the coup.
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His wife, Jalila, oversees a foundation in Gaza, bankrolled by the UAE, that offers charitable services in the territory.
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Alarmed by the persistent claim that baseball evolved from rounders, Spalding bankrolled a commission to produce a better explanation.
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But the Mueller team contends Manafort bankrolled a luxurious globe-trotting lifestyle with money he wasn't paying taxes on.
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Writing that hit, though, gave her the exposure to land the publishing deal that's bankrolled her career ever since.
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Adobe had bankrolled the promotion, and Yamaguchi hoped success would lead team management to procure bracelets for future games.
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Hogan's lawsuit was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, after Gawker in 2007 published an article about Thiel's homosexuality.
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Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.
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In August, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash bankrolled $90 million for a California ballot initiative to create an alternative model.
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Since 2014, it has become a full-time enterprise, bankrolled by advertising revenue and PayPal donations from his readers.
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" The ad, bankrolled by the GOP super PAC Defend Arizona, spotlights Sinema's 2007 comments and says: "That's just wrong.
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Toward the end of the trial, it was revealed that Hogan had been bankrolled by tech investor Peter Thiel.
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He bankrolled "Wonder Wheel" for an astounding $25 million, a huge step up from Mr. Allen's pre-Amazon films.
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Disclosure: In 2016, Thiel secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media resulting in the company's bankruptcy.[CNBC]
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In the past decade the brothers have bankrolled 1,829 candidates; their largesse helped elect a third of the current congress.
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ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - For at least a decade, Iraqi business mogul Khamis Khanjar has bankrolled Sunni politicians and fighters alike.
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Hogan's lawsuit was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal.
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MI) in 2016 and bankrolled the rescue of two smaller lenders based in the Veneto region by Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.
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Once you know that Ford bankrolled the campaign to create a pickup truck emoji, even the original proposal sounds suspect.
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Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, later secretly bankrolled Hogan's lawsuit against the media company.
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Those donations effectively bankrolled the group's recent aggressive spending, as it ends the period with just $2.1 million on hand.
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The growing national debate over whether to liberalize marijuana laws is being bankrolled by a handful of billionaires and millionaires.
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This includes Torshin and a billionaire oligarch who bankrolled some of her projects and has reported ties to Russian intelligence.
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Thiel, an early investor in Facebook, cofounded PayPal and Palantir and, more recently, bankrolled the lawsuit that shut down Gawker.
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Fischer says he paid his photographer $35,000, co-writer $30,000, designer $30,000, and bankrolled the recipe-testing and travel himself.
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RT will also have to indicate that their content is either bankrolled by the Russian government or expresses its views.
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For years, Google has bankrolled academic research directly and given funding to academic centers, in addition to Washington think tanks.
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He has bankrolled guerrilla digital marketing campaigns for such projects as Dinesh D'Souza's 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage.
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The company's rapid growth has been bankrolled by some big names, with prominent investors such as Airbnb and SoftBank (SFTBF).
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Everytown for Gun Safety — bankrolled mostly by Michael Bloomberg — recently secured a $1 million donation from entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad.
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Two ballot initiatives bankrolled by Tom Steyer's NextGen America would increase the percentage of renewable electricity mandated in Arizona and Nevada.
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Right now, the government-bankrolled gondola network covers 6.2 miles, has 10 stations, and runs cars that arrive every 12 seconds.
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Hogan's lawsuit was bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook Inc and a co-founder of PayPal.
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And he seems to have less money to spend, perhaps because his brother, who bankrolled previous runs, has been less generous.
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The media committee is probing the possible ties to Russia of both Wigmore and businessman Arron Banks who bankrolled the Leave.
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I asked Weingarten whether she could really find common ground with DeVos, who has long bankrolled failed free-market school reforms.
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Definers, in turn, helped push the narrative that critics of Facebook were being bankrolled by Soros and his Open Society Foundations.
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Mulvaney has spent a year repaying old debts to the payday lenders that bankrolled his career as a member of Congress.
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Even when Apple was in its relative infancy in 1986, its co-founder bankrolled the creation of Pixar, the animation studio.
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Hoffenheim, where Rangnick worked previously, was a village team before Dietmar Hopp, a software billionaire, bankrolled its rise to the Bundesliga.
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To its credit, the European Union has already taken action against the network of regime loyalists who have bankrolled Marota city.
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It also bankrolled regional groups like Unasur, a more pliant body that replicated jobs handled by the O.A.S., like election observing.
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The 120 million yuan ($13 million) production was bankrolled by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the national agency responsible for investigating corruption.
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How did this hostile-to-paranoid worldview attract the people-loving boxer who was bankrolled by a lily-white investment group?
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Her closest rival, Bill Conway, a former assistant state's attorney whose campaign was bankrolled by his billionaire father, conceded late Tuesday.
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Critics have been skeptical, arguing that projects bankrolled through the initiative will bury the recipients in debt and cause environmental damage.
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Frustrated by the crime, city officials handed off park operations in 1980 to a nonprofit corporation that local landlords later bankrolled.
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In 1975, he joined the board of Hubbard Real Estate Investments, a trust that bankrolled shopping centers in suburban New York.
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The state investor committed $15 billion to Softbank's Vision Fund I, which has bankrolled tech companies like Uber, WeWork and Slack.
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Self-driving startup Cruise is bankrolled by GM, but it just revealed a new vehicle that envisions the end of cars
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Therefore, it is more than likely the bulk of these recent overseas purchases by Chinese companies is bankrolled by Chinese banks.
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The country's international creditors had bankrolled the country in return for tough reforms and austerity monitored by their inspectors since 2010.
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Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Hogan&aposs lawsuit against Gawker, raising concerns about the power of the wealthy against the media.
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His career has been bankrolled by billionaire father Lawrence, who made his fortune with the Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors fashion brands.
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With media models economically under threat, "ideology media" bankrolled by businessmen with political leanings has understandably, he said, become the new norm.
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In Syria, Iran has bankrolled the government of President Bashar al-Assad while Saudi Arabia has supported Sunni rebels seeking his ouster.
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The prince has bankrolled a regional campaign against Islamists, supporting the overthrow in 2013 of Egypt's democratically elected Islamist president, Muhammad Morsi.
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After yet another Sanders swipe at Clinton as part of a political establishment bankrolled by Wall Street and drug companies, she unloaded.
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How did Silicon Valley, an industry bankrolled by ARPA, the Pentagon and Congressional tax dollars, lose touch with its roots so quickly?
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When finished, it will be the largest mosque in the Balkans—one in a long string of such projects bankrolled by Turkey.
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The law created a fund to finance addiction treatment programs bankrolled entirely by manufacturers and distributors of prescription painkillers in New York.
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O.G.C. Nice is owned by a Chinese-American consortium, while Monaco has long been bankrolled by the Russian petrochemical billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
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But Mr. Ricketts, a Republican, and his wealthy family bankrolled a ballot referendum that gave voters a chance to decide the issue.
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O'Keefe insists that he and Giles's work was done independently and rejects liberal suggestions that the videos were bankrolled by conservative organizations.
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Among these was the closure of the pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera, which, like beIN Sports, is bankrolled by Qatar's government.
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The president is a professed idolater of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and his election campaign was partly bankrolled by the late dictator's heirs.
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I don't think I could pick Robert Mercer out of a line-up, for example, and he bankrolled Brexit and Trump's candidacy.
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But even the Yards's younger, hipper counterpart was bankrolled by the same corporate player: Shed board member and real estate developer Stephen Ross.
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Corporate funding doesn't inherently corrupt, but on balance, studies bankrolled by the food industry do tend to favor the interests of their sponsors.
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A pro-Nazarbayev political party bankrolled by ERG's cofounders was founded in 5.03 and merged with the president's Nur Otan party in 2006.
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The narrator in this ad accuses Trump of having ""bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy -- a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have bankrolled the LoaScope project since its inception in 2011, spending more than $5 million to date.
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He remained enormously wealthy from his days as a pioneering financier, and he bankrolled a wide range of charitable endeavors, including medical research.
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Conservative groups that bankrolled the Janus case have begun a nationwide push to inform public workers of their new rights to opt out.
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It matters little that Qatar lost its Arab Spring bets: Across the region, Islamist forces bankrolled by Doha are vanquished or in retreat.
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But Mr. Sheikh resigned in a dispute with the board after just a few months and instead bankrolled his own rival franchise, Pyramid.
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Xu and Song are bankrolled by corporate money, but unlike many of their fellow entrepreneurs, they skipped funding from Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
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In one Illinois school district, Mr. Uihlein bankrolled a school board candidate who fought a move allowing transgender students in girls' locker rooms.
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Putin's choice to run Ukraine was a burly former coal-miner named Viktor Yanukovych, whom Putin bankrolled against pro-Western rival, Viktor Yushchenko.
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The report attacked the attitudes of British Cycling's board and UK Sport, the national funding agency bankrolled by the national lottery and government.
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Enrich launches the book with the saga of Henry Villard, an erstwhile railroad tycoon in the U.S., whom Deutsche bankrolled in the 210s.
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They say that Doha, rather than the benign meeting ground described by Qataris, is a city where terrorism is bankrolled, not battled against.
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It was embarrassing, especially on a project being bankrolled by a rich kid that was supposed to herald videogames' big move to Hollywood.
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That suit was later revealed to be secretly bankrolled by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who had a problem with Gawker's coverage of his life.
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Jared Polis, a Democrat who bankrolled one of the past anti-fracking efforts, is opposed to this year's measure as a candidate for governor.
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After the jury's decision, it was revealed in a Forbes report that Hogan's case had been quietly bankrolled by Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
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After it was revealed that Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against media company Gawker, critiques questioned Facebook's position as an unbiased distributor of news.
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As a billionaire conservative philanthropist, DeVos bankrolled damaging "school choice" policies that have failed in her home state of Michigan and across the country.
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Editorial This year the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia will be bankrolled entirely with money from corporations and wealthy individuals.
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The C.I.A., however, in contravention of American policy, was supplying arms to the Katangan rebels who were bankrolled by the Belgian conglomerate Union Minière.
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Friess, whose net worth was about $530 million in 2012 according to The Wall Street Journal, bankrolled a super PAC that supported former Sen.
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The reconstruction was bankrolled by Russia and the city now hosts Europe's largest mosque, a multi million-dollar soccer stadium and modern skyscrapers complex.
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The brothers have also reportedly soured somewhat on spending big on presidential elections, having bankrolled failed 2012 Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
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"His campaign is bankrolled by Pelosi," said another attack ad aimed at Andy Kim, who is running for a House seat in New Jersey.
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Soon, other dockless bike share companies popped up: Chinese copycat Mobike, bankrolled by Alibaba rival Tencent, claims to be the world's biggest dockless operator.
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He also bankrolled some of Butina's expenses while she was in the US, including her tuition, according to a person familiar with the arrangement.
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He has also bankrolled partisan newspapers and backed Roy Moore in Alabama even after he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls. Mrs.
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Peter Thiel, the technology billionaire who largely bankrolled the lawsuit that led to Gawker's bankruptcy, submitted a bid in January to purchase the website.
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In a similar vein as its support for Hamas, Iran has bankrolled Gaza-based terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) with hundreds of millions.
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Second, an infrastructure program should be a partnership, bankrolled by federal, state, local and also private funds, with the mix depending on the project.
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Banks — a businessman currently under fire over allegations of ties to the Kremlin — was among UKIP's largest funders, and bankrolled the Farage-backed Leave.
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Pete Ricketts's (R) veto, he and his family reportedly bankrolled a campaign, costing more than $6900,2628, to let voters decide for themselves, BuzzFeed reported.
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The discord over brakes bankrolled by Ford "has, in certain cases, tipped the scales for the defendants with juries," said plaintiffs' lawyer Jon Ruckdeschel.
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Read more: How a Russian oil giant bankrolled the Kurdish split from Iraq Journalists reported large, long queues of traffic as many residents fled.
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This month, a scandal broke when the Folha de São Paulo paper alleged that top business supporters of Bolsonaro illegally bankrolled a WhatsApp spam campaign.
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No one, that is, except for the animal rights activists who bankrolled attacks on de Blasio's principal opponent in the mayoral Democratic primary in 2013.
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The House Committee on Natural Resources has been examining whether any of these forces have been bankrolled or equipped with funding from the US government.
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She cast him as a child of privilege, bankrolled with millions from his late father's property empire (which was sued for racial discrimination, she noted).
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In 2016 Candidate Trump called the UN a corrupt, useless club for globalist elites that did not deserve to be bankrolled by hard-working Americans.
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A World Cup finish inside the top 30, guarantees a skier just $800, with most riders being either bankrolled by their federation or large sponsors.
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In its first attack ad for Handel, the Chamber accuses her opponent, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff, of being bankrolled by out-of-state Hollywood actors.
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She was out of the Oregon Project, the elite training group Nike bankrolled to develop mostly American runners it hoped would become the world's best.
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As with past efforts, Proposition 56 supporters are bracing for a media blitz — bankrolled by more than 55 million from R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.
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Thiel bankrolled Hogan's suit, which culminated in a $140 million payout to Hogan — and, most crucially in Thiel's eyes, the bankruptcy and shutdown of Gawker.
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You don't buy a business with a lawsuit hanging over it, especially if that lawsuit is bankrolled by a shark with legs and Hulk Hogan.
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Although she's still stunning, she's no longer being cast in the sexpot roles that have bankrolled her career, and that very real questioning—what next?
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The future of Greenwich Street includes a performing arts center in 25, named for and bankrolled in part by the billionaire businessman Ronald O. Perelman.
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The group's efforts follow a similar advertising campaign, bankrolled by a different Democratic organization, that questions whether Mr. Sanders can beat Mr. Trump in November.
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The commercial district concentrated along Throckmorton Avenue between Madrona Street and Blithedale Avenue has boutiques, galleries, restaurants and entertainment places, some bankrolled by local celebrities.
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Kazakh authorities say Ablyazov instigated and bankrolled a series of protests across the country in 2016 that forced Nazarbayev to delay unpopular land-ownership reforms.
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Gawker had filed for bankruptcy after losing a privacy lawsuit to wrestler Hulk Hogan, who had been secretly bankrolled by Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
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The operation against the company, which is bankrolled by an oligarch close to Putin, was carried out in order to prevent any interference in the midterms.
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But a lawsuit from three voters bankrolled by her primary opponent, Matt Heinz, claims she gave false information to election officials about her place of residency.
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The judge's decision comes just one day after Forbes reported that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a PayPal co-founder, has secretly bankrolled Hogan's legal fees.
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Chehaoduo is one of Uxin's closest rivals and is backed by deep-pocketed investors like SoftBank's Vision Fund, which bankrolled it with $1.5 billion in February.
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Kazakh authorities say Ablyazov instigated and bankrolled a series of protests across the country in 2016 that forced Nazarbayev to delay an unpopular land-ownership reform.
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Despite having sold his holdings in companies that generate fossil fuels, Steyer still bankrolled numerous projects that will continue to emit carbon into the foreseeable future.
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They know that for 40 years, Donald Trump has bankrolled these same liberal politicians that have inflicted so much damage on the state of New York.
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Hopes of quick change were fueled by diplomatic support from numerous countries and tough U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's vital oil industry, which has bankrolled Maduro's government.
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Russia is Syria's most powerful ally and has bankrolled much of the six-year conflict, carrying out regular airstrikes in Syria to prop up Assad's regime.
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Mr. Mercer bankrolled Cambridge Analytica in 2014, and Ms. Mercer encouraged candidates and PACs that took the family's money to also hire the family's data firm.
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Directors like Scott generally consider dozens of projects that never get bankrolled, or find their way to the top of a packed and shifting priority list.
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Banks, who also bankrolled UKIP under the leadership of Nigel Farage, is accused of concealing the true source of £8 million donated to the referendum campaign.
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Lampert, formerly the company's chairman and CEO, has bankrolled the retailer for years to keep it going but so far failed to return it to profitability.
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Like other sectors, such as steel and solar panels, the prospect of an avaricious rival bankrolled by Beijing is posing a major challenge to Europe's incumbents.
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The documents showed that Waste Management and its subsidiary, McGinnes Industrial Management Corporation, bankrolled citizen groups opposing removing the toxic waste and instead opting for containment.
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The film follows Sasha (Anna Akana), an aspiring designer whose life in Los Angeles is bankrolled by her father (Richard Ng), a toy manufacturer in Shenzhen.
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He bankrolled his operations through kidnappings for ransom, pioneering a business model that was later adopted by the terrorist group in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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While the fund represents the vision of Mr. Son, it is bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, which has put up $45 billion — nearly half the fund's size.
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A little-known group backed by the European Union, called the European Investment Fund, has for years bankrolled some of the region's top venture capital funds.
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Or perhaps in the modern landscape, where a club not far from Bury is bankrolled by the riches of a nation state, these teams cannot survive.
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Or perhaps in the modern landscape, where a club not far from Bury is bankrolled by the riches of a nation state, these teams cannot survive.
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The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, a group bankrolled by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, has hired another firm to lobby on its behalf, The Keelen Group.
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The ad is being bankrolled by United We Win, a super PAC that plans to spend $1 million to help Booker qualify for the December debate.
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Thiel never forgave Gawker for outing him, and in recent years he has bankrolled the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that pushed Gawker Media into bankruptcy this year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Arron Banks, a British businessman who bankrolled one of the main campaigns for Brexit, said that whistleblowers who had made allegations against his Leave.
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Image: Kristen V. BrownThis stunt—and it was a stunt—was only the latest in a series of very bold, very public biological experiments bankrolled by Ascendance.
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But the amendment has been largely written and bankrolled by the oil and gas industry, and environmentalists have criticized it as a bid to avoid more regulations.
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Now with a second death in Buck's home, the Democratic politicians and groups he has bankrolled need to do what is right for the black queer community.
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Although it is bankrolled to a large extent by its founder, Paul Allen, who was also a founder of Microsoft, other sources of dollars are always welcome.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Australia bankrolled undersea internet cables for its Pacific neighbors, it shut out a competing offer from Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL].
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I didn't serve overseas in the Marines to come home to NC and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people's very right to vote.
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EU is bankrolled by a group of millionaires including Arron Banks, a British insurance tycoon who dismisses Cameron and finance minister George Osborne as "two toffs together".
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Mumin Abdullahi, the deputy prosecutor for Somalia's national security forces, said among those sentenced were a security officer and an al Shabaab member who bankrolled the attack.
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Akhmetov is one of the richest men in Ukraine and bankrolled the Party of Regions, a Ukrainian political party aligned with Moscow that Manafort worked to bolster.
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Deals are often struck without any open tenders, creating opportunities for cronyism and kickbacks, and lending credence to accusations that projects bankrolled by China are sometimes overpriced.
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It said he never had a formal role in the hotel and characterized him as a relatively minor stakeholder in the investment fund that bankrolled the project.
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The PTM's criticism of the powerful military has brought it into conflict with Pakistani authorities, who accuse it of being bankrolled by hostile neighbors Afghanistan and India.
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"You could eat it," Mr. Bayer said, "although we don't encourage that," Over the past several years, governments have quietly bankrolled efforts to develop packaging from food.
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"Moonlight," after all, wasn't made by one of the big studios, which are more interested in superhero fantasies; it was bankrolled by A24, a small, independent company.
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Separately, information shared by Ukrainian hackers has shed light on a network of freelance pro-Russian activists across Eastern and Central Europe who are bankrolled by oligarchs.
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"Brian Kemp's getting the support of all kinds of hard-working, good people all across Georgia, and Stacey Abrams is being bankrolled by Hollywood liberals," Pence said.
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That is what Monaco was not so long ago, of course, when its benefactor, Dmitry Rybolovlev, bankrolled a spending spree impressive even by European soccer's inflated standards.
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Michelle Richardson of the Centre for Democracy and Technology, a privacy-advocacy group which is bankrolled in part by big tech companies, calls the CCPA "ground-breaking".
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That investigation was bankrolled by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, despite earlier denials by top Clinton lawyer Marc Elias and campaign chairman John Podesta.
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It was, in other words, a David win in a Goliath world, in a version of the story where David is bankrolled by Nike, a major corporation.
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There's more ... Foster reportedly claims that when Lonzo was balling at UCLA, he personally bankrolled the basketball star so Zo could eat and live comfortably in college.
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The Global Witness report alleges that a Cyprus company belonging to the president's daughter, Claudia Sassou-Nguesso, bankrolled the purchase of the Trump apartment in July 2014.
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Other top Nxivm members were charged in the case, including Nancy Salzman, actress Allison Mack and Seagram liquor heiress Claire Bronfman, who bankrolled the group's frequent lawsuits.
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He later worked for George Soros, the billionaire financier who has bankrolled liberal candidates and causes -- and who was depicted as a villain in Trump's last campaign ad.
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The sites' former owner Gawker Media was bankrupted after losing a lawsuit filed by Terry Bollea, also known as wrestler Hulk Hogan, and bankrolled by billionaire Peter Thiel.
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But the progress she made - such as building schools, roads, and hospitals - was bankrolled by huge foreign aid flows that analysts say Weah may be unable to maintain.
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For the past 19 years he has bankrolled his space company, Blue Origin, almost entirely out of pocket and has made his goal of colonizing the moon known.
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The race took place earlier this month and was one of the priciest of its kind, offering $1 million in prize money, bankrolled by the United Arab Emirates.
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The idea that activists, and leftist activists in particular, are being bankrolled by Soros, or by Jewish interest groups more widely, is a ubiquitous form of political propaganda.
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Mexico's crime wars are getting deadlier by the day, despite a crack down on crime gangs bankrolled by the United States that was meant to wipe them out.
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She picked up on trends before they turned into movements; bankrolled crazy, and now classic, projects; and bought what she couldn't sell, which was a lot of art.
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Kapoor, now 74, bankrolled Insys almost entirely on his own for over a decade, shepherding Subsys on the long road to approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
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In private conversations with would-be business associates before his arrest this month, Parnas boasted that his newfound luxurious lifestyle was bankrolled by Firtash, two sources told CNN.
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Foxx's challengers are former assistant state's attorney Bill Conway, whose campaign was bankrolled by his billionaire father; former federal prosecutor Donna More and former Chicago Alderman Bob Fioretti.
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In the mid-1990s, a glut of imports from Europe and farther afield thronged into England, an invasion bankrolled by television money but inspired, without question, by Cantona.
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PTM's unusually direct criticism of the powerful military has brought it into conflict with Pakistani authorities, who accuse PTM of being bankrolled by hostile neighbors Afghanistan and India.
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That's an impressive collection for any movie, let alone one bankrolled by A24, a specialty film studio with a hip reputation but a penchant for keeping budgets low.
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SailGP, which is bankrolled by Ellison, is looking to make the annual competition and its teams self-sustaining by bringing in more sponsors and attracting a global audience.
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SailGP, which is bankrolled by Ellison, is looking to make the annual competition and its teams self-sustaining by bringing in more sponsors and attracting a global audience.
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"I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities," he said in his 2010 State of the Union address.
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The Space Kingdom of Asgardia isn't technically a nation yet—it's a non-profit non-governmental organization based out of Vienna, Austria and bankrolled by Russian billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli.
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Through front groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- well represented on President-elect Trump's transition team -- the company bankrolled pseudo-science designed to create uncertainty in the public's mind.
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CCB has emerged as the only Italian bank willing to make a direct investment in Carige after others said they were not interested unless the state bankrolled the deal.
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Rushed out in 1980, it was savaged by critics, earned less than $4 million at the box office and helped sink United Artists, the studio that bankrolled the film.
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Two outside groups bankrolled heavily by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson will spend for the Republican nominee and allow him to go close to dollar-for-dollar with the Democrats.
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A young Brazilian soccer player who came to Europe to seek fame and fortune is offered ludicrous sums to abandon a world-famous club for a Qatari-bankrolled upstart.
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Bankrolled by Craiglist founder Craig Newmark, the Ford Foundation and others, it attracted interest for its nonprofit structure at a time when for-profit U.S. media organizations are struggling.
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The Norm The restaurant that was Saul's at the Brooklyn Museum has been redone with less formality and renamed for Norman Feinberg, the museum trustee who bankrolled the renovation.
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Powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia forces — bankrolled and equipped by Tehran — have their eyes on the upcoming Iraqi election and are predicted to win a significant block of seats.
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Rovio bankrolled the production of the movie, four years in the making, for a reported sum of $73 million and hired Disney and Sony Pictures veterans to direct it.
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"I didn't serve overseas in the Marines to come home to NC and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people's very right to vote," McCready tweeted.
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City, long overshadowed by its neighbor Manchester United, received its infusion of cash in 2008 from Abu Dhabi investors; P.S.G. got its boost when Qatar bankrolled it in 2011.
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WeWork first opened offices in China in 2016, and last year set up a Chinese entity, bankrolled by SoftBank and Hony Capital, to expand its presence in the country.
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The project is bankrolled for the next two years, and Mr. Tofel said it is likely a new set of projects and news organizations will be selected for 2020.
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The system was developed by Heliogen, a six-year-old startup that just came out of stealth mode this week and is partially bankrolled by Bill Gates' investment firm.
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The internet has long been home to countless sites of dubious credibility, and the Arab world is full of news sites bankrolled by private parties to promote their interests.
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She's bankrolled by her grandmother, a spunky pioneer woman whose late husband, we learn, was killed by Native Americans in the 1800s—an obviously problematic plotline by today's standards.
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But their primary elections are bankrolled at least in part by the government, and that's one reason they should be open to anyone who wants to participate, Sanders said.
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In November, Rio officially bankrolled a $21.3914 billion futuristic iron ore mine in the resource-rich Pilbara region, aiming to cash in on the rising Chinese demand for finer ore.
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The case is part of wave of lawsuits bankrolled by firms specializing in so-called litigation finance, providing funding to plaintiffs in return for a slice of any financial winnings.
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member who secretly bankrolled lawsuits to undermine Gawker Media, said he might turn the now-defunct news and gossip website Gawker.
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What is especially notable, however, is how these videos intersect with young female YouTubers' commercial interests and business ventures: Their channels are incredibly lucrative and often bankrolled by corporate partnerships.
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Player burn out certainly isn't scaring everyone away, more and more teams are being bankrolled by pro athletes and celebrities like Boston Celtics star Jonas Jerebko and DJ Steve Aoki.
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It might be that's with a gun, or twelve; it might be entirely nonviolent, or brain teasing, or every bit as epic of scale as the most bankrolled Hollywood blockbuster.
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Western diplomats and spooks have long been concerned that Pakistan, whose own nuclear programme was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia, might be a ready supplier of know-how, fuel or bombs.
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The actor's payout from his Wolf of Wall Street deal has also come under scrutiny, amid questions over whether the film was bankrolled by money embezzled from the Malaysian fund.
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Perhaps more significantly, the DeVoses have bankrolled numerous independent political spending groups that commit large amounts of money towards TV ads, mailers and other forms of support for Senate candidates.
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Ballot measures allowing recreational pot use in Maine and Massachusetts have been bankrolled by the Marijuana Policy Project and the New Approach PAC, both longtime advocates of the liberalization movement.
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First, some background: In the weeks before Monday's annual meeting, it was revealed that Mr. Thiel had bankrolled Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, the gossip website founded by Nick Denton.
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Where it stands: Maduro will look to secure material support from China and Russia, which have bankrolled his government but have grown increasingly anxious about his mismanagement of the economy.
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The closing of Gawker represents a victory for Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who bankrolled the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that pushed Gawker Media into bankruptcy and, by extension, turned Gawker.
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This season of ghouls is animated by the ghost of Roger Ailes, who — bankrolled by Rupert Murdoch — was the mastermind behind the hate-breeding technique he perfected on Fox News.
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The Times teamed up with The Observer of London for the investigation into Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company bankrolled by conservative investors that worked on the 26 Trump campaign.
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It may have been bankrolled by a Silicon Valley fortune, but Mr. Wieseltier, who has often inveighed against the corrosive effects of technology on culture, described it as a throwback.
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Subsequent journalists have documented how supposedly grassroots right-wing movements—from the Tea Party to the Leave campaign in Britain's Brexit referendum—were secretly bankrolled by a handful of billionaires.
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When it came to light that Linda Bean, the granddaughter and heir of the company founder Leon Leonwood Bean, bankrolled a pro-Trump political action committee, opponents vowed to boycott.
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Boies and Pottinger also discussed creating a charity to support victims of abuse that would be bankrolled by private legal settlements from the men incriminated by Kessler&aposs supposed evidence.
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She said she expects backlash from traditional conservatives who will bristle at the IAP's anti-corporate messaging, and she said some of those critics are bankrolled by Big Tech themselves.
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Her gene therapy is going OK — which they bankrolled by stealing money from Dyad, which currently isn't "in the clone game," according to Scott — but they've reached a roadblock with Kendall.
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Gawker Media declared bankruptcy in 2016 after a lawsuit bankrolled by Silicon Tech billionaire Peter Thiel prevailed in its invasion of privacy case over the publication of Hulk Hogan's sex tape.
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Hell, we all fondly remember the once-in-a-lifetime spectacle of the "Rumble in the Jungle," but it was all bankrolled by the terrifying president of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko.
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PayPal and venture capital John Hancock: Walk tall and carry a big pen Peter Thiel: Ugh, just GTFO John Hancock was a merchant-turned-smuggler who bankrolled the Sons of Liberty.
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Apple TV+ is a streaming service that is launching in November and will cost $4.99 per month for access to a variety of original TV shows and movies bankrolled by Apple.
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Many of them have ties to Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), an outfit bankrolled by the conservative Koch brothers, who want more ex-servicemen to receive health care through private markets.
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Among them is the Mriya Resort and Spa, a hotel investment bankrolled by Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, on the South Shore of Crimea in the city of Yalta, the department said.
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Genius leaves little breathing space for the women—Laura Linney's Louise Perkins and Nicole Kidman's Aline Bernstein, Wolfe's older, married lover who bankrolled him during the writing of his first book.
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An on-demand food delivery start-up bankrolled in part by the founder of Shake Shack has ended its New York City operations, just four months after its seed funding round.
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Much of this activity is being bankrolled by the largest insurance companies, most of which are a century old and tend to have dull names that sound like, well, insurance companies.
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HTT's upcoming project is bankrolled by German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which is the largest railway company in Europe, so that at least suggests some confidence in HTT's ability to deliver.
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However, Jagatrakshakan said he expected 70 percent of the project to be bankrolled by debt from financial institutions, adding that Silver Park would get more investors to fund the equity stake.
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Bankrolled by a $20143 billion break-up fee from a failed 22014 merger with AT&T Inc, it has snapped up wireless airwaves in states ranging from New York to Washington.
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As the Arab Spring uprisings broke out in 2011, Qatar bankrolled the Muslim Brotherhood across the region, seeing it as a sympathetic force for Sunni populism in an increasingly democratic era.
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Meanwhile, Seagram's heiresses Claire and Sarah Bronfman, who are believed to have taken over Nxivm after Raniere's arrest, reportedly bankrolled the organization to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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After the trial, it was revealed that the prosecution had been bankrolled by Thiel, probably as an act of revenge for a story that Gawker published about him several years prior.
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Foxx has focused on clearing the air with voters long enough to best her three primary challengers, especially Conway, whose father has bankrolled his campaign to the tune of $10.5 million.
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The problem with Pelosi's gesture is that last June, she and the rest of the House leadership bankrolled Trump's dark vision for America by approving the Senate's emergency funding border bill.
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They seem to be in thrall to a mysterious character named Thorpe, and, like those experimental communities bankrolled by Robert Owen, they're funded, skimpily, by a rich copper smelter from Swansea.
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A Peruvian prosecutor said earlier this year that the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, and two Brazilian construction companies may have bankrolled Humala's presidential campaigns before he took office in 2011.
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The venture was also bankrolled by a $232 million loan from Exim Bank, and has been criticized by media watchdogs for allegedly granting excessive influence over the media landscape to Beijing.
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On her charity's website, Chang posted photos from the Afghanistan trip, without indicating that the defense contractor bankrolled the visit and that her NGO conducted no aid work during the trip.
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A company called LifeFuels, bankrolled by Keurig Dr. Pepper, started selling a smart water bottle that tracks your hydration and tells you when and what kind of nutrient "pods" to consume.
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Hill, who represents a district that covers swaths of northern Los Angeles, said in an interview that she's hearing about impeachment from her constituents in addition to a more bankrolled push.
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Other journalists like Jason Prechtel have sued the FCC in a bid to get to the truth about who manipulated the FCC comment system, and who may have bankrolled the effort.
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In Argentina alone, China has financed hydroelectric dams and wind farms, and the government is in talks for a Beijing-bankrolled nuclear power project, potentially using China's own Hualong One reactor design.
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In theory such a bounty should be paid from a fund bankrolled by countries according to their cumulative historical emissions (top comes America followed by Europe, with China rapidly closing the gap).
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The move followed revelations that Hogan's lawsuit, along with several others against Gawker, were being bankrolled by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal.
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New research shows that the ads bankrolled by those outside groups with the vague, patriotic names are an almost foolproof way to bludgeon any opponent without generating any blowback for the candidate.
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Trump's claims that the dossier contains fake information and that the Russia investigation is a "witch hunt" have been emboldened by the revelation that a lawyer linked to Democrats bankrolled Fusion GPS.
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The tax made Cook County a battleground for expensive lobbying campaigns from the soft drinks industry, as well as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who bankrolled ads promoting the tax.
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George Soros, a financier who has bankrolled many pro-legalisation pressure groups, provides a chapter; the book carries an introduction by Richard Branson, a business mogul whose company, Virgin, is its publisher.
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For the north, it would be a chance to tap EU funds and revamp an economy that now subsists on tourism, casinos, strip clubs and a bloated public sector bankrolled by Ankara.
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The warrant is with SoftBank -- not the SoftBank Vision Fund, which is bankrolled in part by the Saudi government, a controversial subject in Silicon Valley since the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Black Tulip, which Pous Bertran said has invested in other Trump projects, runs a real estate investment fund it has said is bankrolled by investors around the world, including Brazil and Russia.
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He lifted the lid on what is claimed to be a web of financial crimes that mocked taxpayers and bankrolled Manafort's life of opulence -- featuring gilded mansions and an ostrich skin jacket.
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For the first time, Indonesia would have a state petroleum fund, bankrolled with revenue the government makes from oil and gas production as well as levies and bonuses, according to the draft.
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Abdul Rashid Dostum, the vice president of a government bankrolled by the United States, of abducting him, and then punching and kicking him until a pool of blood formed under his feet.
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Now Mr. Morgan has a vast personal fortune bankrolled by a settlement from his accident; he has a wife and a young daughter and another chance to make TV viewers laugh again.
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The event, called "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA," is the latest of three successive multi-venue extravaganzas in and around this city, spaced several years apart, and bankrolled by the Getty Foundation.
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The company, bankrolled by Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor who invested at least $15 million, offered tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.
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As American thoroughbred racing takes center stage under the famed Twin Spires of Churchill Downs this weekend, several horses in the spotlight will be bankrolled by a new and surprising source: China.
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Intelligence information suggested that a Malaysian militant believed to have bankrolled a siege of Marawi, and a Filipino brother accused of plotting the attack, were killed in the clashes in the city.
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CNP co-founder Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute has trained thousands of conservative candidates, and billionaire members of the CNP, including Wyoming businessman Foster Friess, have bankrolled an entire generation of Republican politicians.
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And the press will be on to out the Ukrainian official said to have bankrolled and directed their alleged scheme to make straw donations to gain influence in D.C. and with Trump.
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The secret recordings in Madrid's Majadahonda municipality controlled by the People's Party (PP) culminated in a High Court investigation into allegations the party's top brass had a slush fund bankrolled by friendly businesses.
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The lawsuit, which was bankrolled by tech magnate and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, resulted in $140 million verdict for Hogan and drove Gawker into bankruptcy; the case was later settled for $31 million.
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Under previous centre-left governments, Italy bailed out Monte dei Paschi di Siena in 2016 and bankrolled the rescue of two smaller lenders based in the Veneto region by Intesa Sanpaolo in 2017.
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Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and little progress the startup is splitting up, multiple sources confirm to TechCrunch.
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The jury remains out on 18-year-old Canadian Lance Stroll, signed by former champions Williams for 2017, who is a promising talent but whose career has been bankrolled by his billionaire father.
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According to the Associated Press, an official recount in Wisconsin, bankrolled by Stein's fundraising, found no evidence of hacking or other irregularities and altered vote totals by only a fraction of a percent.
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The world's biggest oil company keeps the House of Saud in power, bankrolled 211% of the national budget last year, and is a paragon of efficiency in an economy otherwise mired in bureaucracy.
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But NeuroQore (not to be confused with Neurocore, the "brain performance" centers bankrolled by Betsy DeVos) hopes to replace drugs with these pulses and thinks it may be onto something with initial tests.
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Read more: How a Russian oil giant bankrolled the Kurdish split from Iraq Barzani's powers will be distributed between the prime minister, who is also his nephew Nechirvan Barzani, parliament and the judiciary.
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Read MoreKudlow: Bernie will win the Dem nomination So now, the former Senator from New York bankrolled by Wall Street is now trying to cast herself as an enemy of the moneyed interests.
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SETI's early years in the United States was mostly defined by intermittent searches bankrolled with public funds, such as the National Science Foundation-funded program at Ohio State University which discovered the Wow!
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The real scandal, though, is what emerged in the fallout: that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel bankrolled Hogan's suit in order to retaliate against Gawker, which outed Thiel as gay years earlier.
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Trump has committed a derisory $113 million to his program – a rounding error compared with the $900 billion estimated for Beijing's Belt and Road, which China bankrolled at $82 billion three years ago.
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"Over the last week, we have seen the criminal activity come to light, and we have seen that my opponent, Mark Harris, has bankrolled this criminal activity," McCready told North Carolina's WSOC-TV.
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Ms. Aldana said that at least 70 people in the country's political and business elites have been implicated in money-laundering and bribery schemes that bankrolled Mr. Pérez Molina's party and his cronies.
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Notably, the McCrory campaign was bankrolled by Art Pope, founder of the Pope Center for Higher Education (now the Martin Center), an organization dedicated to increasing the "diversity of ideas" taught on campus.
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Grace Notes BASKING RIDGE, N.J. — The locals say that George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette — the Frenchman who bankrolled the American patriots with cold, hard cash — picnicked in the shade it provided.
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She has spent most of her professional life fighting for loosening the federal government's grip on public education while promoting parochial and charter schools in Michigan — many of which her family has bankrolled.
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And this November, voters in the Golden State will very likely decide on full recreational legalization via the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), a ballot initiative bankrolled by tech billionaire Sean Parker.
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They helped crush Bahrain's uprising, bankrolled a return to military dictatorship in Egypt, armed a rogue military leader in Libya and mismanaged a democratic transition in Yemen before launching a destructive war there.
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He recruited coaches from Holland, built more fields, bankrolled trips to play the best youth teams in Europe — Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid — and invited Tolyatti's most promising graduates to train at Chelsea.
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For example, Breakthrough Starshot, an interstellar mission bankrolled by the billionaire Yuri Milner, wants to use giant lasers to send a fleet of thumbnail-sized probes to our closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.
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I reached out to Philly's mayor, Jim Kenney, to learn about how he managed to get the 1.5 cent levy per ounce passed amid a fierce opposition campaign bankrolled by the beverage industry.
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Many athletes call it a "gag rule" that curtails their freedom of speech and unfairly sidelines the sponsors who bankrolled and supported their training, sometimes for years, at the moment of highest visibility.
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Mr. Floirendo had bankrolled Mr. Alvarez's recent congressional candidacy, yet he soon found himself slapped with a graft complaint in which the speaker alleged anomalies in a government contract involving a banana plantation.
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The Times reported that Pershing Square even bankrolled civil-rights groups to help find victims of Herbalife whom they could present to regulatory agencies, making videos of their stories and posting them online.
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A group of countries in, say, Central Asia will put together a joint bid, bankrolled with some combination of public funds, low-interest loans, debt and equity financing, and a sliver of cryptocurrency.
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The team of 800 has ambitious expansion plans that are bankrolled by a roster of high-profile investors, including Silicon Valley heavyweights GGV Capital, GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) and Marc Benioff.
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He also signed a pledge to oppose any tax increases to address climate change — a pledge circulated by Americans for Prosperity, the conservative lobbying group bankrolled by petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch.
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India's technology industry is bracing itself for the next era of e-commerce warfare, which looks set to be waged and bankrolled by two gigantic corporations located halfway across the world: Amazon and Walmart.
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Bankrolled by donations from Trump's friends and business associates, the foundation gave away money in Trump's name so that Trump could publicly claim credit even though he essentially was giving away other people's money.
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Gawker has also hired investment banker Mark Patricof of Houlihan Lokey to review its options, as a high-profile legal fight with wrestler and entertainer Hulk Hogan continues, bankrolled by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel.
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The Mercer family, the billionaires who poured money into Trump's election and have bankrolled much of Bannon's political career, and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson are considering writing checks to the group, the source said.
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Bankrolled by Rupert Murdoch's Star TV and Mashal Sports, which counts India's Mahindra group chairman Anand Mahindra among its promoters, the league has since transformed the indigenous sport into a high-octane televised spectacle.
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AC Milan which reported a loss of 93.5 million euros last year and needs cash to put it on a par with the top European clubs, many now bankrolled by Gulf and Asian owners.
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In exchange for loyalty, these cronies are allowed to prosper and gain entrée in the West, all bankrolled by the blood money of graft, autocracy and aggression from Idlib to Salisbury to the Donbas.
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While the review was presented as an independent probe of the trial, it was commissioned by Manafort's primary client, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and bankrolled by Victor Pinchuk, a steel oligarch and Yanukovych backer.
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That money bankrolled Democrats up and down the ticket, who now hold not only the governorship but a supermajority in the State Legislature, both Senate seats and 13 of the state's 18 House seats.
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The name of billionaire Kolomoisky — an alleged money launderer who is reportedly in the sights of the FBI and bankrolled private battalions to fight in eastern Ukraine — is one that makes you pay attention.
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The World Bank eventually decided against the dam on the Karnali, but how many other roads and dams are being bankrolled in the last rainforests of New Guinea, the Amazon and the Congo basin?
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The purpose seems to be to suggest that the Taliban are not a formidable force with an ideology and deep roots in Pakistani society, but rather a bunch of sexual perverts bankrolled by India.
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Born to landless peasants, Balke was lifted from rural life by talent so evident that the locals bankrolled the early phase of an artistic education that took him from Oslo to Copenhagen and Stockholm.
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He lost $8 billion in the cable television industry, chiefly with a bad bet on cable company Charter Communications, while technology ventures he bankrolled such as Metricom, SkyPix and Interval Research were costly failures.
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Representing Miller are two veterans of the team that sued Gawker Media into oblivion for publishing a sex tape of the wrestler Hulk Hogan, a case partly bankrolled by Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel.
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Senior American lawmakers are demanding answers from the secretary of the interior as they broaden their inquiry into whether the US government has bankrolled anti-poaching forces that have committed abuses against vulnerable indigenous people.
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Last week, Terry Branstad, the popular Governor of Iowa... (APPLAUSE) WALLACE: ... Who is in the hall tonight, said that you're bankrolled by big oil, and that Iowa voters would be making a mistake supporting you.
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The movie, helmed by award-winning documentary director Brian Knappenberger, looks at last year's court case between Hulk Hogan and Gawker — a battle secretly bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaire and friend-of-Trump Peter Thiel.
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I have to admit, that the idea of an explicit TV show being bankrolled by Apple had me chuckling for a moment as I considered Steve Jobs' stance on profane material in the App Store.
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But the company's decision to hop in bed with Thiel — also known as the man who bankrolled the infamous legal fight that led to the end of Gawker — isn't winning it any affection with players.
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Carige is Italy's last remaining large problem bank after Rome bailed out Monte dei Paschi di Siena and bankrolled the rescue of two smaller lenders based in the Veneto region by Intesa Sanpaolo last year.
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The "porno chic" films of the 1970s, like Deep Throat (1972), The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), and The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), saw pornography emerging as big business, often bankrolled by organized crime.
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Abandoning the wealthy elites who had bankrolled previous presidential campaigns, the Arizona senator used direct mail and television to appeal to a broader group of ideological grassroots conservatives—the "true believers" as he put it.
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And 212 years from the time we bought the first stock and 2120 years from the time we in effect bankrolled the company in terms of coming out of bankruptcy, we've never received a dividend.
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A Japanese company, Nippon Electric Glass, entered into a joint venture with Owens in 1988 and bankrolled the investment that Owens's own executives wouldn't; by 1993, N.E.G. owned the factory outright, and it was thriving.
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Releasing a report entitled, "In the pockets of the few," on Monday night, Labour said its research showed that one-in-three of the U.K.'s billionaires had "bankrolled" Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party.
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" — Greg Walters Read more: How a Russian oil giant bankrolled the Kurdish split from Iraq North Korea renewed its threat against Guam Friday, warning that America's actions had brought Pyongyang's hand "closer to the trigger.
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Australia II, bankrolled by Alan Bond and skippered by John Bertrand, sparked a national celebration in 1983 when it ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak and brought the trophy down under.
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LONDON — Arron Banks, a British financier who bankrolled the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, has long bragged about his "boozy six-hour lunch" with the Russian ambassador eight months before the vote.
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And he recalls the 221 Russian election, which President Clinton praised as a victory for democracy, even though oligarchs bankrolled Boris Yeltsin's campaign in exchange for shares in state-owned industries at bargain-basement prices.
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The $1.5 million ad campaign, which will also air in Washington and online, is being bankrolled by Stand Together, a network of nonprofits funded by the Charles Koch family, a leading backer of conservative causes.
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Besides fossil fuels, climate denial has been one of America's most noxious exports—much of it bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry itself, leaders of which were fully aware of their contribution toward global warming.
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"Werewolf" and "Hello Destroyer" were both bankrolled by Telefilm Canada, which was criticized by directors and others in 2016 for a tendency to devote most of its budget to established talents rather than taking chances.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were threatened by the popular uprisings of 2011 and bankrolled a counterrevolution, squashing protests in Bahrain and encouraging the Egyptian military to depose Mr. Morsi and take power.
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The 2013 pageant was bankrolled by Aras and Emin Agalarov, the same Russian financiers who helped arrange the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Don Trump Jr. where he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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The initiative will be bankrolled both publicly and privately, including by a $50 million starter fund from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency for which President Trump has tried to cut funding.
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Ailes has retained lawyer Charles Harder, the attorney who represented Hulk Hogan in his own recent suit against Gawker Media, which was bankrolled by billionaire tech baron Peter Thiel and sent the media company into bankruptcy.
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Amazon entered the foray last year, but it remains only in Singapore, while Shopee is a two-year-old entrant bankrolled by Sea, formerly Garena, which raised over $1 billion in a U.S. IPO last year.
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With a couple of notable exceptions, private investors have snubbed Russian soccer so most top-tier clubs are bankrolled by regional authorities and state-owned companies, leaving teams vulnerable to budget cuts and shifting political priorities.
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Zenit St Petersburg, bankrolled by Gazprom, signed Brazil's Hulk and Belgium's Axel Witsel for 80 million euros ($94 million) in 2012 but has since cut back on big transfers as global oil and gas prices slumped.
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"Trump bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy, a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades," says the narrator in spot that calls out Trump's attempt to seize an elderly woman's home for his Atlantic City casino.
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For the first time there will not be competing sets of technical rules, as was the case with 4G, when LTE, now the standard, was initially threatened by WiMax, which was bankrolled by Intel, a chipmaker.
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Freelance drivers, who needed work in a deep recession, and customers, lured by cheaper rides and cashless transactions, together bankrolled Uber into a tech unicorn — a private company with a valuation of at least $25 billion.
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This time, the search is being bankrolled by OEX Recovery Group, an organization that holds survey and recovery permits and is backed by Ontario-based Osisko Mining as well as several banks and venture capital firms.
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When the World Wildlife Fund was set up in 1961, Scott invited him to be president, but he declined; he became its second vice-president, and made quietly sure his money bankrolled the WWF to success.
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"Beijing has bankrolled Mugabe and his wife for years and will cozy up to Mwangagwa now," Pinak Chakravarty, distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank, said in a Monday note.
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Unknown to the Qaeda bosses, about a fifth of the ransom was inadvertently provided by the C.I.A., which bankrolled a secret fund for the Afghan leader with monthly cash deliveries to the presidential palace in Kabul.
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This time it's set at an elite performing arts school in Atlanta founded and bankrolled by the brilliant but megalomaniacal pop star Sage Odom (played by the real-life pop star Ne-Yo, channeling Kanye West).
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But the United States cannot lead from behind when it comes to confronting the Venezuelan cabal that is managed by Cuba, bankrolled by China, armed by Russia, and exploited by Iran, Hezbollah and Colombian narco-terrorists.
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The company issued a press release late Monday saying it would no longer support Proposition C, a ballot initiative parents' groups say the company has bankrolled that proposes to overturn San Francisco's ban on e-cigarettes.
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GRASS-ROOTS EFFORTS At the outset, March On was bankrolled by leaders covering expenses out of pocket, but it raised a "sizeable" amount of money in 2018 and aims to raise $2 million in 2019, Wruble said.
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Carige is Italy's last remaining large problem bank after Rome bailed out Monte dei Paschi di Siena in 2016 and bankrolled the rescue of two smaller lenders based in the Veneto region by Intesa Sanpaolo last year.
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Millennials, or consumers aged between 20 and 35, may not be the wealthiest targets for luxury brands, but many young Chinese are often unafraid to spend their earnings on premium goods, sometimes bankrolled by parents or grandparents.
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GRASS-ROOTS EFFORTS At the outset, March On was bankrolled by leaders covering expenses out of pocket, but it raised a "sizeable" amount of money in 2018 and aims to raise $2 million in 2019, Wruble said.
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You don't have to be a bankrolled athlete to participate in long-distance triathlons — and you certainly don't need the fanciest equipment to start — but Abunassar and Blanco note that some expenses are more worthwhile than others.
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The project would be based on "The Bad Boys of Brexit", an account of Farage's campaign by Arron Banks, a multi-millionaire British insurance tycoon who bankrolled the campaign, according to Andy Wigmore, a spokesman for Banks.
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"I didn't serve overseas in the Marines to come home to NC and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people's very right to vote," McCready said in a video posted to Twitter on Thursday.
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Washington (CNN)Following Donna Brazile's claim that Hillary Clinton's campaign bankrolled the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election, the former interim chair of the DNC says she found "no evidence" the Democratic primary was rigged.
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Republicans had access to a revamped GOP Data Center run by the party, as well as to i360, a for-profit data operation bankrolled by the Koch brothers' network that offered incredibly detailed information on potential voters.
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As such, most hydropower dams in Laos are bankrolled by investors from China, Thailand, Korea, Japan and France, explained Courtney Weatherby, a research analyst with the Southeast Asia program at the Washington-based think tank Stimson Center.
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He underestimated the market's appetite: Regulatory filings from the years around the deal show that many of the lenders that bankrolled Hard Rock Park were large and typically more conservative investment firms, including BlackRock and Eaton Vance.
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And if the virtue-signaling isn't enough, the man who has bankrolled Barbara Boxer, Charles Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand — the list goes on and on — is determined to pay out much more.
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Nor has he sued the Associated Press, as he threatened to do earlier this year, or Ted Cruz, as he said he'd do during the primary, or the Jeb Bush donor who bankrolled negative ads against him.
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Unable to strike a deal with a streaming service, the 33-year-old comedian bankrolled the special himself, hiring a camera crew that he'd known through a mutual friend and an editor he'd gone to college with.
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A figure of astonishing brilliance and manic productivity, he cared so little for the feelings of other people (save the big investors who bankrolled his ventures) that he saw no reason to keep anything bottled up inside.
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A Confederate statue erected in 1913 on the campus of the oldest public university in America and long the most liberal institution in the South, Silent Sam's construction was bankrolled by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton, powerful conservative backers bankrolled and pressed her case until the sitting president of the United States was deposed under oath — and fatefully denied having sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.
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The week-long tournament in Madrid's Caja Magica, involving 18 teams split into six groups of three, is being bankrolled by Barcelona defender Gerard Pique's investment firm Kosmos, who are pumping in $3 billion over 25 years.
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All of this comes less than two years after Univision purchased Gawker Media, picking up the large suite of sites for $135 million, after the brand was felled by a Hulk Hogan lawsuit partially bankrolled by Peter Thiel.
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Carige is Italy's last remaining large problem bank after Rome bailed out Monte dei Paschi di Siena in 2016 and bankrolled the rescue of two mid-sized lenders based in the Veneto region by Intesa Sanpaolo last year.
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Intrigued by Allen's ecological philosophy, Bass became more involved in Synergia life and eventually became the director of the Institute for Ecotechnics, an organization dedicated to radical ecology projects that was founded by Allen and bankrolled by Bass.
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It also coincided with the start on Tuesday of another corruption trial into allegations some of the PP's senior members had a slush fund bankrolled by friendly businesses Reporting by Emma Pinedo, Sarah White Editing by Jeremy Gaunt
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Stone falsely claimed that Guo was found guilty and convicted of financial crimes in the US, violated election law by making political donations to Hillary Clinton, and bankrolled a presidential run by former White House adviser Steve Bannon.
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The U.K.'s opposition Labour party has taken aim at the country's billionaires, saying that the super-rich and big corporations have bankrolled the ruling Conservative Party in return for tax breaks worth almost £2000 billion ($21 billion).
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A third Premier League team, Bournemouth, has been bankrolled by a Russian benefactor: Maxim Demin, a former trader and petrochemical magnate, bought the financially stricken club in 2011, and has since transformed it into a Premier League mainstay.
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Billionaire Republican donor Paul Singer, who bankrolled an effort to try to defeat Trump during the campaign's nominating phase, said on Wednesday that a Trump presidency and his trade positions would almost certainly lead to a global depression.
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The tournament has been bankrolled by the Western Australian government's tourism body, Tourism W.A. Player appearance contracts have included clauses forbidding them from criticizing Perth, and at times the programming can feel like an infomercial for the region.
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The new week-long tournament in Madrid's Caja Magica, involving 18 teams split into six groups of three, is being bankrolled by Barcelona defender Gerard Pique's investment firm Kosmos, who are pumping in $3 billion over 25 years.
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After he defied Ms. DeVos on a key charter school vote, Mr. Pumford, the former Republican legislator, survived an effort by the Great Lakes Education Project, a nonprofit the DeVoses bankrolled, to defeat him in his 2002 primary.
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The deal is an important moment for Ms. Redstone, who has long waited in the shadow of her father, a combative, cantankerous entrepreneur who over decades forged an empire through a series of mergers bankrolled by big loans.
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It wasn't bankrolled by his mom and dad: He'd been working since the age of 11, and by the time he bought the Amityville Country Delicatessen, Long Island, he also was running a paper route and waiting tables.
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Numbers men also in many ways filled the void left by a formal economy indifferent to black residents' needs: They bankrolled many small businesses, from bars to restaurants to corner groceries, and also saved many businesses from bankruptcy.
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Read more: How a Russian oil giant bankrolled the Kurdish split from Iraq With the country tipping toward greater conflict, America's top diplomat, Rex Tillerson, made an unannounced trip to Baghdad Monday to try to contain the fallout.
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With the statute of limitations on retesting doping samples now at 10 years after the initial test, Nelson proposes deferring compensation for athletes into a "fair play" fund, which could be bankrolled by the I.A.A.F., meet directors or sponsors.
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Thiel, a founder of PayPal, who secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media resulting in the company's bankruptcy, was one of the only prominent members of Silicon Valley to publicly endorse Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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Most of the sites that are currently part of the portfolio were part of the group originally known as Gawker Media, which went bankrupt after wrestler Hulk Hogan sued the company in a lawsuit bankrolled by billionaire Peter Thiel.
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Justice Mann in London's High Court ruled on Monday that a landlord bankrolled by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct International PLC can expedite a challenge to Debenhams' restructuring proposals, which could push the retailer into administration as early as September.
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In the '80s and '90s, the monarchs of this tiny, oil-rich nation in the South China Sea bankrolled a fleet of special custom vehicles, ordering the most coveted cars in the world by the half-dozen or more.
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But behind-the-scenes, the foundation served another purpose: It was a front organization for the South African government, bankrolled as a last-gasp attempt to prolong its existence, according to investigations by Newsday and the Observer in London.
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News accounts at the time called the $200-million production "the most expensive film ever made," and even a solid opening weekend left doubts as to whether the studios that bankrolled it, Fox and Paramount, could recoup their investment.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates bankrolled and backed the Egyptian military's crackdown and coup against the Brotherhood government; Turkey and Mr. Erdogan backed the Brotherhood and provided refuge to the group's leaders and members after the crackdown.
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Initial news media reports suggested that Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the Thai billionaire who bought the team in 2010 and bankrolled its fairy-tale Premier League title win in 2016, was on board, although the authorities did not immediately confirm that.
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The Justice Department signaled Monday that it could back away from plans to put a Russian company on trial next month on a criminal charge that it bankrolled online and offline troll activity during the 2016 U.S. presidential race.
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In an era when big-budget theater was an increasingly corporate affair, bankrolled by companies like Disney Theatrical Productions, Ms. Lion was an independent producer, putting up her own money and recruiting other investors to get a show mounted.
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In doing so, Burling usurped New Zealand's nemesis, Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill, who won the cup in 2010 aged 30 and was hoping for a third successive victory for the syndicate bankrolled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
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Democrats talking impeachment There are some notable exceptions: Billionaire Tom Steyer has bankrolled an ad blitz since last year to promote impeaching the president, and some Democratic elected officials without competitive races have been freer to float the idea.
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They're often bankrolled by nothing more than corporate sponsorship and high-risk debt, and, to no great surprise, they go bust in a few years, only to be replaced by the same thing with a different name after a brief hiatus.
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Senior American lawmakers are demanding a wide range of internal documents from the World Wide Fund for Nature's US branch as they continue to investigate whether the US government has bankrolled anti-poaching guards who have committed human rights abuses.
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The Chinese bought AC Milan from Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi who was unwilling to stump up the extra funds required for the team to compete with Europe's top clubs, many now bankrolled by wealthy Gulf and Asian owners.
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The ads, which are being bankrolled by the House Democrats' political arm, are specifically aimed at seven congressional districts with major African American populations — two in Florida, two in Nevada, one in California, one in Kansas and another in Nebraska.
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While the group does not disclose its donors, a report by the International Business Times shows that Republican megadonors or their affiliated foundations have previously bankrolled Turning Points USA, including Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and conservative financier Foster Friess.
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WeWork, a unit of The We Company, has been bankrolled by more than $10 billion in venture capital, which raises questions of whether the money-losing workspace provider can stand on its own or if it still needs large cash infusions.
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Back in May, a pro-Faso group called New York Wins PAC entered the district with a half-million dollars in advertising, all bankrolled by one man: Robert Mercer, co-CEO of the high-speed trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Foreigners living in Canada have boosted their share of the country's mortgages in the last two years, particularly in Vancouver and Toronto, as young home buyers are bankrolled by their parents overseas, the federal housing agency said on Tuesday.
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The club, which reported a loss of 13 million euros last year, needs an injection of capital to fund its business and put it on a par with the top European clubs, many now bankrolled by Gulf and Asian owners.
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There's a smoking section, so to speak, where you can get the sense—through cigarette-pack cards, cigar boxes, and myriad other promotional materials—of the extent to which the tobacco industry bankrolled baseball through and even beyond its infancy.
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" The ad flashes to an October 16 Washington Post article about Trump's ties to the mob in Atlantic City, and slams the real estate mogul for having "bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy -- a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades.
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At the invitation of the U Nu government, the Committee for a Free Asia—which was renamed the Asia Foundation in 1954—became active in Burma in 1952, bankrolled by the CIA through the National Committee for a Free Europe.
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The same Teamsters-backed pension fund now trying to cut benefits once bankrolled the construction of mob-run hotels and casinos in Las Vegas in the 1950s and 60s, primarily through a funding scheme Hoffa's father Jimmy brought into existence.
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The House of Sabine is bankrolled by a French cotton magnate, just as Dior opened his own couture house with funding from Marcel Boussac, a war profiteer and the country's cotton king, at the time the richest man in France.
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"We are seeing strong bipartisan laws to keep people safe from gun violence in red, purple and blue states," said Kate Folmar, a spokeswoman for Everytown for Gun Safety, a group bankrolled by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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The biggest donors, giving more than $100,000 each, are also a veritable roll call of the stop-Trump movement, among them the billionaire investor Paul E. Singer and Marlene Ricketts, who bankrolled early efforts to deny Mr. Trump the nomination.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg bankrolled ads promoting the tax as a deterrent to childhood obesity, while the soft drink industry through the Can the Tax Coalition ran ads against what it deemed an intrusion into consumers' lives.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Argentina is still negotiating the terms of a Beijing-bankrolled nuclear power project in Buenos Aires province, a government official said on Tuesday, adding that China's own Hualong One reactor design would be a good choice for the scheme.
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Or to put it another way: This sounds a lot like artist-run mini-labels that big music labels have bankrolled in the past as part of deals to work with megastars like Dr. Dre (Aftermath Entertainment) and Eminem (Shady Records).
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In order to continue with their hypocritical lifestyle, the royals offered cultural freedom and women's rights as a sop to the fundamentalists, allowing anti-Western clerics and madrasas to flourish and giving a free pass to those who bankrolled terrorism.
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They decried the haste with which Infantino is attempting to push through an agreement for a 24-team World Cup for clubs and a league for nations that would be bankrolled by the fund whose identity has been kept secret.
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Mr. Orban and his party, Fidesz, have used anti-Semitic tropes to promote his vision of Hungarian nationalism, and have been accused of trying to understate Hungarian complicity in the Holocaust — even as he has bankrolled many Jewish institutions and causes.
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As we have noted, this all began with the festivities surrounding the inauguration, which were bankrolled by coal, oil, gas, chemical, technology and pharmaceutical companies that forked over a big chunk of the record $107 million raised for the inaugural events.
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Advocate for limited government The Koch network has spread a hardline, limited-government message that has helped move the GOP to the right in recent years, as they bankrolled efforts to elect conservatives to Congress and statehouses around the country.
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Mr. Brindisi says in the ad that "Claudia Tenney's campaign is bankrolled by Spectrum;" federal records shows Charter Communication's political action committee gave Ms. Tenney two $2,500 donations in 2017, a small share of the nearly $2 million she has raised.
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"Special interests continue to demand that the Senate confirm nominees to the Export-Import Bank so that they can resume receiving large, unnecessary subsidies bankrolled by the American taxpayer," said Andy Roth, vice president for the conservative Club for Growth.
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Tsipras is due to give a state address from the island, a day after Greece ended its third bailout deal with international creditors who have bankrolled the country in return for tough reforms and austerity monitored by their inspectors since 2010.
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The story begins in 2010 with the formation of Kitty Hawk, a secretive flying-car company bankrolled by Google co-founder Larry Page and run by Sebastian Thrun, the Stanford AI and robotics whiz who launched Google's self-driving car unit.
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The Times - Royal Dutch Shell has thrown its weight behind an energy storage venture bankrolled by CNIC, the Chinese investment fund, and China Huaneng Group, a state utility company, building what is claimed to be Europe's largest battery in Wiltshire. bit.
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Maduro says the United States is promoting a coup against him and promised to stay in office, backed by Russia and China, which have bankrolled his government and fought off efforts to have his government disavowed by the United Nations.
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It also spent upwards of $150 million on private villas and associated security, bankrolled a multi-million dollar Afghan start-up incubator that is now defunct, and even paid to import Italian goats in order to jumpstart the country's cashmere industry.
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"Hat's off to those guys today, they sailed clean and smart," Spithill said after the race, adding that the U.S. team bankrolled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison would fight to the end and had staged a comeback from a similar position before.
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Thiel, the Facebook board member and most definitely not the founder of Gawken, bankrolled Hulk Hogan's $140 million court case against Gawker for the publication of a clip of the wrestler's sex tape, which led to the site shutting down on Aug. 22.
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He secured a flurry of signings by Saudi clubs of surplus or unhappy Al-Ahly players, bankrolled the renewal of contracts for key club players, shopped for a new coach and announced a multi-million dollar project for a new Al-Ahly stadium.
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During family weekend this month at Brown University, an alumnus and a student confronted a professor at his lecture on the protests, accusing him of bias toward the Communist Party of China and suggesting that he was bankrolled by Chinese political groups.
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"Washington profited by diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations that (were) supposed to benefit a clinic in Africa for needy families and children, but instead bankrolled his own personal spending," said Tammy Dickinson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
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I guess a crisis center is better than no crisis center, even if it is bankrolled by three unwilling ex-husbands (one of whom is a statutory rapist and another of whom has committed major financial fraud — but enough about that, oh well!).
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So some expressed surprise Tuesday that Thiel appeared to attempt to re-christen the proposed law as the "Gawker Bill," since the bill itself has nothing to do with the media, or with former wrestler Hulk Hogan's case against Gawker, which Thiel bankrolled.
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But Spain took so long to jump on some of the help sent its way - namely a jobs scheme bankrolled by Europe - it risks not fully using a golden opportunity to help youngsters scarred by a deep recession, politicians, unions and jobseekers say.
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They were perhaps a precursor to the modern Bournemouth side in that sense: bankrolled to success by a wealthy owner with calculated designs on Premier League status, yet somehow still able to preserve a sense of starry-eyed romance in the process.
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Where other fantasy series attempt to bludgeon the audience into enjoyment with showy visual effects and epic set pieces bankrolled by massive budgets, The Magicians, stuck on basic cable as it is, relies on ingenuity and emotional adroitness to save the day.
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There were more than 2628 employees assigned to one part of the project by July 28503, according to court documents, and a broader effort codenamed "Project Lakhta" was being bankrolled at a rate of $22019 million per month as of September 2016.
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In a wider push to reduce debt, Berlusconi decided to sell the club because he was unwilling to stump up the extra money required for the team to compete with the top European clubs, many now bankrolled by wealthy Gulf and Asian owners.
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It is a new and unlikely role for Mr. Kushner, a conspicuously polite Harvard graduate whose prominent New Jersey family bankrolled Democrats for decades and whose father's reputation was destroyed, in a highly public and humiliating manner, by his involvement in electoral politics.
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And its investment arm has bankrolled some of the world's largest and most successful upstart technology companies, including many with serious name recognition here in the U.S. Like many large corporations, SoftBank invests its cash across a broad portfolio of asset classes.
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The title of the episode comes from Rudy, who happily enters into a three-picture deal with Matthew Ianniello (Garry Pastore) for the rights to Lori, the star of the surefire hit he and a rival have bankrolled, unbeknown to each other.
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In an installation judicious in its use of texts they give prominent space to an account of the African-Arab slave trade that bankrolled so much Swahili Coast luxe, an ethical fact that no accurate account of the past can now leave out.
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He has bankrolled Hoffenheim, a village team, all the way to the Champions League, by running contrary to the ownership model — the so-called 250+21 rule, in which clubs cannot be majority owned by an individual — that many in Germany hold dear.
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Before he ran for president, Steyer bankrolled two significant outside groups: Need to Impeach, which was an early advocate for impeaching President Donald Trump, and NextGen America, an organization that worked to turn out young voters in an effort to boost Democrats.
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Notably, it is unclear what Iran has used its unfrozen funds for, and former Secretary of State John Kerry said in 2016 that some of the funds would likely end up in the hands of terrorist organizations run or bankrolled by the Iranians.
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The central government has bankrolled research into a number of world "firsts," including the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in humans in 2016 and the first reported use of gene editing technology to modify nonviable human embryos in 2015.
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In India, the government has used laws to nudge people away from the American tech giants and toward local competitors, such as ShareChat, a social network that operates only in Indian languages, and Reliance Jio, a cellphone giant bankrolled by India's richest man.
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This is about the intersection of money and power, and it cuts deep in a world where billionaire Peter Thiel secretly bankrolled lawsuits to bankrupt Gawker Media, where the rich use dark money to fuel non-profits, all while hiding in the dark.
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Turns out the Meg has been lurking in a previously undiscovered area of the deep seas and is inadvertently loosed by a deep sea exploration team based on a deep-sea exploration rig and bankrolled by a rich guy named Morris (Rainn Wilson).
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Qatar dragged renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei out of retirement for the construction of the $1.6 billion Museum of Islamic Art, bankrolled exhibitions by Takashi Murakami, Louise Bourgeois, and Richard Serra, and also went on a very, very pricey international art shopping spree.
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The article questioning the authenticity of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's hair was posted last month, around the same time Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, stung by a 2007 Gawker story outing him as gay, revealed he bankrolled Hogan's lawsuit over a sex tape.
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Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, a major donor to the campaign of a new president who'd bragged that his celebrity allowed him to "grab them by the pussy," bankrolled Hogan's legal action, allegedly aggrieved because one of Gawker's sister sites had mentioned his homosexuality.
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TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Here, near the heart of America's "Tornado Alley," an Air Force contractor built 20173 new homes less than a decade ago, bankrolled as part of the U.S. government's vow of safe shelter for the men and women who serve.
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Former executives remember Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ali Rowghani meeting several times with the company, with some employees hoping for a scenario like Google's 2006 acquisition YouTube, in which a larger company scooped up a startup and bankrolled it in spite of the legal risk.
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Fewer smugglers are setting off from the Nigerien city of Agadez - a smuggling hub until the European Union last year bankrolled a clampdown - and are now taking more treacherous routes through the Sahara, far away from water sources and basic services, the IOM said.
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And yes, it's a place for Gawker's Nick Denton to talk about the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, bankrolled by Mr. Thiel whom I have no quarrel with and think is probably a very nice billionaire who'd be fun at a picnic or any social occasion, really.
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Indeed, much of his later work in the science of stress was bankrolled by tobacco companies seeking to establish a link between stress and chronic illnesses like cardiac diseases and cancer as a way to counter the narrative that cigarettes were responsible for these illnesses.
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"We have been consciously pursuing a state-by-state strategy to pass good gun laws and defeat the NRA's dangerous guns-everywhere agenda," said Kate Folmar, a spokeswoman for Everytown for Gun Safety, the group bankrolled by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that he had bankrolled lawsuits against Gawker, including one by the wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry G. Bollea.
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So: metal mined by men and children wielding the most primitive of tools in one of the world's largest and oldest continuously running mines—the same mine that bankrolled the sixteenth century's richest empire—wound up inside some of today's most cutting-edge devices.
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The iPhone is the product of a winding supply chain that begins in places like the tin mines of Bolivia, where miners pry tin out of the increasingly unstable walls of Cerro Rico, a centuries-old silver mine that once bankrolled the Spanish Empire.
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Youth sports are now a $16 billion industry bankrolled by parents who are often unaware of the science of athletic development and nervous that the bullet train of opportunity will leave the station if their child doesn't hop on, year-round, at age 8.
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Its history abounds with tales in which creator Gene Roddenberry, his showrunning successors, and the production studios that bankrolled them came up against objections and affronts from networks in their struggles to get what would become the franchise's most successful entries to the small screen.
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Sheikh last summer acquired the Andalusian team Almeria and since then has bankrolled a program to overhaul the team in a bid to win promotion to the first division, where it could compete against the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Spain's other biggest clubs.
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"It was a great spectacle, not only live but I think it came across unbelievably well on TV." The revamped Davis Cup was bankrolled by a multi-billion dollar, 25-year partnership with Kosmos, the Barcelona-based investment company owned by soccer player Gerard Pique.
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While some big checks for the inauguration came from longtime Trump friends and associates, much of the money came from the industries that have traditionally excelled at wielding Washington influence: telecommunications, tobacco and pharmaceutical giants, which have bankrolled presidential inaugurations for Republicans and Democrats alike.
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In March, a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed how the beloved mega-charity with the cuddly panda logo — and famous patrons from Leonardo DiCaprio to Sir David Attenborough — has bankrolled paramilitary groups that have tortured and killed people living near wildlife parks in Africa and Asia.
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The series, which was also raced in New York, San Francisco and Cowes on the south coast of England, has been bankrolled by Ellison after his Oracle Team USA America's Cup team lost the "Auld Mug" to Emirates Team New Zealand in Bermuda in 2017.
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Kremlin-controlled Rosneft this year became the first oil major to pre-finance Kurdish crude exports, an activity long dominated by trading houses, which had bankrolled the semi-autonomous region amid its fight against Islamic State and a budget crisis caused by low oil prices.
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And what today's deadline will tell us is whether or not working people coming together and contributing small amounts of money can compete and win to the end against the millionaires and billionaires who have bankrolled Hillary Clinton's campaign and her largest super PACs.
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Ever since Britons voted to quit the European Union in 2016, questions have been asked about Arron Banks, a pugnacious entrepreneur with wide-ranging international contacts, who bankrolled a pro-withdrawal campaign and is thought to be the biggest political donor in British political history.
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It's also not far off from Thiel, who secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media, resulting in the company's bankruptcy, saying, "A free press is vital for a public debate," in the same column where he explains why he sued Gawker out of existence.
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Considering the fact Alice ends Godless with a Roy-supplied fortune, it's easy to wonder what an all-woman town looks like when it's bankrolled by two wealthy ladies like Alice, whom Truckee (Samuel Marty) admits will never leave La Belle, and sex worker-turned teacher Callie.
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Even on the EU it is utterly divided: some (like Mr Carswell) want Britain outside the union to become a European Singapore, while others (like Aaron Banks, the forthright businessman who bankrolled the party's pro-Brexit efforts) want something more like a return to the 1950s.
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Franken was a trailblazer on the left, and it's surprising that publishers didn't turn his style of satire into a cottage industry, the way that conservative publishers bankrolled their operations with books about how the Clintons were murderers and Barack Obama was an illegal alien usurper.
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That means tighter budgets for organizing and representing workers and for donating to the campaigns of allied politicians, which is a major reason conservative organizations like the National Right to Work Foundation and the Mercer Family Foundation have bankrolled legal challenges to the collection of union fees.
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The week-long soccer World Cup-style Davis Cup Finals will be the biggest shake-up the 119-year-old team event has ever had and is being bankrolled by Barca defender Gerard Pique's investment firm Kosmos to the tune of $3 billion over 25 years.
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This was indeed a rare find, in part because it is uncommon for a mosque's exterior to be so adorned — Sarena Dzamija translates to "decorated mosque" — but also because two sisters, named Hurshida and Mensure, rather than sultans or pashas, had bankrolled the construction in 1438.
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"Washington profited by diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations that was supposed to benefit a clinic in Africa for needy families and children, but instead bankrolled his own personal spending," Tammy Dickinson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, said in a statement.
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But if a different athlete, in a different sport, decides to back out, it may put that person in an extremely uncomfortable position, caught between real concerns about the consequences for teams, and teammates, and even corporate sponsors who may have bankrolled the road the Rio.
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For years the Hong Kong bourse has tried to build up a mainland business, banking on its location as the perfect meeting point for China's mainland and global commodities traders, a strategy it bankrolled with a $2.2 billion buyout of the London bourse back in 2012.
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In April 1978, the WTA board decided not to extend its long-term sponsorship with the tobacco company Philip Morris, whose Virginia Slims brand had bankrolled the women's tour from its early beginnings in 1970, according to "Women's Tennis 1968-1984: The Ultimate Guide" by John Dolan.
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Some of that lift has come from a multimillionaire in St. Louis, Rex Sinquefield, who has brought top players to the United States — sometimes by helping to finance their nationality switches — and has bankrolled a club that is cultivating talent and wooing top contenders like Caruana.
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Of their six rivals in the Belgian second division, four are the playthings of foreign investors: the Thai owners of Leicester City, the Russian billionaire who has bankrolled A.S. Monaco, a German entrepreneur and a wealthy Egyptian who now backs three separate clubs in Africa and Europe.
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It would have been perfect had Deutsche bankrolled a shunned real estate mogul and made him king — and of course, they did that too, the one bank that lent to Donald Trump long after he had a reputation for stiffing its peers and for stiffing Deutsche itself.
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Mr. Diller has said the City Club is being bankrolled by Douglas Durst, the real estate tycoon whose family owns a dozen Manhattan skyscrapers and who was once an active supporter of the nonprofit Friends of Hudson River Park, the fund-raising partner of the trust.
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With prices down 70 percent over 18 months, producers have deferred costly new oil sands projects and laid off tens of thousands of mainly fly-in fly-out workers, who overwhelmed the city during the 15-year oil boom, but also bankrolled much of its prosperity.
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Despite some early efforts from American tech companies to bring Indians online, the scales didn't tip until oil tycoon and Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, who lives in a 22020-story house that towers over the slums of Mumbai, bankrolled telecom carrier Jio with $35 billion.
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Though a slight majority of the state clearly supports Democratic leadership and progressive policies, the state's Republicans, bankrolled by the right-wing businessman Art Pope, have targeted jobless benefits, education and welfare spending, while pushing for redistricting and limits on voting rights to keep them in power.
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In May last year, Broidy bankrolled a conference about Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that Egypt and other Doha rivals have accused of terrorism, according to Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think-tank that organized the conference.
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My suspicion is that as Stich Fix has entered these new categories, they are for the first time facing headwinds in customer acquisition costs against Trunk Club (bankrolled by Nordstrom) and Dia & Co (backed by Sequoia's deep pockets), whereas they scaled with relatively little friction within the women's category.
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This statistic appears to come from a 9.53 poll of 29.5- to 2400-year-olds done by Third Millennium, which the New Republic described as "a youth-oriented organization bankrolled in part by conservative foundations and such longtime Social Security critics as Pete Peterson" in a 2000 article.
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When politicians on both sides of the aisle are bankrolled and completely owned by the moneyed elite and major corporate interests, the Founding Fathers' ideal of government "of the People, by the People, and for the People" is nothing but a mirage in a depraved desert of greed.
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Manchester City, bankrolled by the royal family of Abu Dhabi, has been described as Barça II. It is run by former Barcelona employees, is building an academy based on the Catalan club's principles and has hired Pep Guardiola, the former Barcelona coach, to take over after this season.
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Mr. Polis has since bankrolled his way from the state board of education to Congress, and during five terms in Washington he has been an advocate for undocumented immigrants, has supported the Affordable Care Act, and has waged a battle against Colorado's $32 billion oil and gas industry.
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The film is set during the Armenian Genocide, and bankrolled by the late businessman Kirk Kerkorian who wanted to bring visibility to the systematic extermination to 23 million Armenians at the order of the Ottoman empire in 2315 — a politically fraught subject that Turkey continues to deny happened.
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There is not one example of this happening—be it Peru, Colombia, China, Burma, Lebanon, or Thailand—because they are not bankrolled by drugs; or the fallacy that we can't negotiate with terrorist groups because they are criminals with no political agenda because they are involved in drugs.
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According to a recent Times of London report, the CIA has told members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S., and the UK) that Huawei is bankrolled in part by the People's Liberation Army, China's National Security Commission, and another branch of the Chinese intelligence service.
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It's an ungainly truth that Virginia Dwan, the almost prophetic gallerist and patron of the two most influential styles of this era — Minimalism and land art — who bankrolled Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" (1970) and a prototype for Walter De Maria's "The Lightning Field" (1977), among other landmark earthworks, represented few women.
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" We owe the new currency of the phrase to the likes of Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council — also bankrolled in its early years by the DeVos family — who, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling allowing same-sex marriage, accused "government schools" of indoctrinating students "in immoral sexuality.
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"This is nothing more than a desperate attempt by Mick Mulvaney to maintain his grip on the CFPB, so he can continue undermining its important consumer protection mission on behalf of the powerful Wall Street special interests and predatory lenders that have bankrolled his career," said Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress.
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In 2017, Art Cullen, editor of northern Iowa's Storm Lake Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering a secret agribusiness fund, bankrolled by Monsanto, Koch Fertilizer, and other companies, to defeat a lawsuit seeking to control water pollution from agricultural fields around Storm Lake and other districts along the Upper Raccoon River.
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As Bland's fortunes waxed and waned, Nesbit's unflagging literary productivity provided for the upkeep of her children, paid the rent on apartments, houses and holidays, subsidized down-on-their-luck relatives and the deserving poor, and bankrolled an endless stream of dinners, theatricals and house parties that Nesbit hosted for her sociable entourage.
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Masterminded by Karl Rove and bankrolled by his right wing cronies to the tune of $30 million, this sleazy 85033 plot resulted in the election of Republican state legislatures that in turn redistricted the country to ensure a Republican majority in the House even though Democrats have 1.4 million more votes in House races.
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But any penalty, and especially one that sees Manchester City ejected from the Champions League, the world's richest club competition, will almost certainly lead to more legal action on behalf of the club, which is bankrolled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, a billionaire brother of the ruler of the United Arab Emirates.
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The hashtag and storytelling was a rebuttal to DeVos, who called traditional public schools a "dead end" and who bankrolled efforts to pass reforms in Michigan, her home state, that would funnel public funds in the form of vouchers into religious and privately operated schools and encouraged the proliferation of for-profit charter schools.
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire Silicon Valley investor who bankrolled Hulk Hogan's sex tape lawsuit against Gawker, invoked what he thinks is his right to privacy in an op-ed for the New York Times in August 2016, shortly after Gawker Media Group was forced to put itself up for sale following its loss of the lawsuit.
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But seven months later, when Mr. Cruz visited the Midtown Manhattan office of a major Republican supporter of same-sex marriage, he sounded almost indifferent: If New York politicians wanted to legalize it, that was their business, he told Paul Singer, the billionaire investor who had bankrolled efforts to strike down laws forbidding same-sex marriage across the country.
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Among other things, Luckey apparently bankrolled a pro-Trump "meme machine," met with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and noted troll Chuck C. Johnson about Trump's border wall, and is now allegedly teaming up with Peter Thiel to create "surveillance technology that could be deployed on borders between countries and around military bases," according to the New York Times.
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And last financial quarter, 2000% of the campaign's legal bills bankrolled the legal fees of Trump's eldest son, who has drawn the attention of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller because of his meeting last summer with a Russian attorney he believed would provide him with incriminating information from the Russian government about his father's opponent Hillary Clinton.
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Read more:Self-driving startup Cruise is bankrolled by GM, but it just revealed a new vehicle that envisions the end of carsThe CEO of the electric-car startup Byton says the company&aposs M-Byte SUV will have more advanced tech than a TeslaTesla&aposs surging stock has Elon Musk on the brink of unlocking a $346 million payout.
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When the news media mentioned him at all, it was usually in passing in reports about his three hard-charging billionaire younger brothers: Charles and David, who ran Koch Industries, the industrial behemoth founded by their father, and bankrolled libertarian causes; and William, David's twin, an eclectic entrepreneur, collector and yachtsman who won the 1992 America's Cup.
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At a raucous rally that he admitted he would rather not have had to attend, Mr. Trump offered a rambling tribute to Mr. Strange, arguing that he had been unfairly tagged as an establishment lackey and an ally of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader whose allies have bankrolled much of Mr. Strange's campaign.
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The Nunes memo alleges that the FBI failed to provide information to the FISA court when using the dossier as part of an effort to obtain a surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, including that the dossier written by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele was bankrolled in part by Democrats.
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Silicon Valley has bankrolled advocacy organizations on issues like LGBT rights or protecting DACA recipients, but the industry's biggest political projects in 2017 were fighting off a growing backlash to the power of digital platforms, winning the approval of a number of mega mergers like the $13.7 billion Amazon-Whole Foods deal, and getting the Trump White House's tax bill through Congress.
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For years, Moscow has bankrolled radical far-right political parties and fringe groups to exploit popular dissent against the EU. In 219, at the same time Russian forces were seizing control Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, Political Capital, a Budapest-based research institute that has tracked the extent of Moscow's reach in Western Europe, published a report showing just how many such groups it was funding.
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When we talk about the future of journalism these days we typically discuss different corporate models of content provision; be it The New York Times and its paywall; The Washington Post and its plutocratic benefactor; The Atlantic and its roster of TED Talk–like panels bankrolled by corporate sponsors like ExxonMobil; or Vice, The Outline, BuzzFeed, and the venture capital lined up behind them.
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The RPG studio turned publisher has a great deal to be proud of—in recent years, it has bankrolled the beloved Dishonored franchise, overseen the resurrection of DOOM, and perhaps most impressively has built Fallout, a niche series largely thought deceased at the turn of the millennium, into a blockbuster property that makes a ridiculous amount of money across its mobile and triple-A iterations.
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Carroll, who has studied the Internet ad tech industry as part of his academic work, reckons Facebook is not the sole source of the data in this case, telling the Guardian he expects to find a whole host of other companies are also implicated in this murky data economy where people's personal information is quietly traded and passed around for highly charged political purposes — bankrolled by billionaires.
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"This looks like nothing more than a desperate attempt by Mick Mulvaney to maintain his grip on the C.F.P.B. so he can continue undermining its important consumer protection mission on behalf of the powerful Wall Street special interests and predatory lenders that have bankrolled his career," said Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a consumer group that has been critical of Mr. Mulvaney.
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"This looks like nothing more than a desperate attempt by Mick Mulvaney to maintain his grip on the C.F.P.B. so he can continue undermining its important consumer protection mission on behalf of the powerful Wall Street special interests and predatory lenders that have bankrolled his career," said Karl Frisch, the executive director of Allied Progress, a consumer group that has been critical of Mr. Mulvaney.
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The Louvre museum franchise joins a campus of New York University and a forthcoming branch of the Guggenheim, all of which are bankrolled by the UAE government, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which will receive 400 million euros (~$467 million) over a period of 30 years — the New York Times reports that eventually the UAE will pay 974 million euros, or ~$1.15 billion, for French expertise, guidance, and loans.
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The two aren't really comparable, though that didn't stop these NYCFC fans—supporters of a team, remember, that was formed last year, bankrolled by Abu Dhabi oil money—throwing their weight behind the anti-corporate, anti-petrodollar "Against Modern Soccer" movement: Despite our absence from the tournament itself, the World Cup that took place in the States in 1994 was in many ways a watershed moment for English soccer.
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Peter Thiel Described as &aposGreat Ambassador&apos For New Zealand Despite Secret CitizenshipPeter Thiel, the billionaire tech mogul and high profile Trump supporter, was granted New Zealand…Read more ReadThiel, a founder of PayPal and prolific investor in the tech world, who secretly bankrolled a lawsuit against Gizmodo's former owner Gawker Media resulting in the company's bankruptcy, was one of the only prominent members of Silicon Valley to publicly endorse Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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Against the grain of past documentaries, in which Moses is framed as a hard-charging champion of the new middle-class for whom he constructed parks, beaches, bridges, and tunnels, Citizen Jane spotlights the despotic, late-period Moses in his capacity as New York State Parks Commissioner and as New York City's Construction Coordinator, bankrolled by an endless stream of federal and state money, much of it serving the needs of the booming automobile industry.
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The latest round targets senior officials of Hezbollah, which most think is a proxy terror group bankrolled by Iran, and President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has threatened that sanctions will be increased "substantially" as Iran surpasses uranium enrichment limits imposed by the 2023 nuclear deal.
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Read more:A Ford exec says the Mustang Mach-E will be profitable immediately — here&aposs whySelf-driving startup Cruise is bankrolled by GM, but it just revealed a new vehicle that envisions the end of carsThe CEO of the electric-car startup Byton says the company&aposs M-Byte SUV will have more advanced tech than a TeslaI talked to 10 auto industry execs and saw over 20 cars at CES 2020.
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Both work extensively with financial services firms, and the idea will be to leverage those relationships to help 210x grow its business globally, and specifically deeper into Asia via Ping An. 240x up to now has been bankrolled by its founder and CEO, who is not your ordinary entrepreneur: up until last year, Antony Jenkins was the CEO of banking giant Barclays, experience that he said in an interview this week gives him a front-row seat to many of the problems that banks face today.
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Which only makes it all the more weird that, when fans of the two clubs had an underwhelming quarrel in New Jersey last August, they couldn't get a three-syllable chant right: Also, it was outside a place proudly claiming to be "Newark's first gastro pub": A battleground only outdone in irony levels by this Hard Rock Cafe: Again, certain questions are raised, chiefly: What exactly is this rivalry—between a team bankrolled by an energy drink and another formed in 2015—built on?
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Christopher Leonard's massive Kochland has documented the immense reach and political power of Koch Industries; Nancy MacLean, one of the foremost historians of the Ku Klux Klan, spent a decade writing Democracy in Chains, on the intellectual and institutional roots of the right-wing billionaires' takeover of the Republican Party; Joshua Green, Jane Mayer, and others have shown how Trump's team effectively sold their campaign to hedge fund billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who bankrolled the flailing operation in exchange for control over its messaging and ideological orientation.
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