Social enterprises are often the benefactors of gender lens investment.
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Many benefactors leave bequests to an orchestra when they die.
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I want to tell them that we've been their benefactors.
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Wealthy benefactors inevitably direct their funding toward their personal enthusiasms.
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That will further strain relations with school boards and benefactors.
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Congrats to him and his benefactors on this wonderful day!
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Welcome to the world of those I call shock benefactors.
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There are also 38 relatives and friends listed as potential benefactors.
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There has already been a sharp disagreement with her American benefactors.
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They were polishing the glistening Hub while its true benefactors slept.
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And these sites can certainly bring negative attention to their benefactors.
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The place is called Iran Park, a gift from Hezbollah's benefactors.
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And ZANU-PF harbors the benefactors of the spoils of misrule.
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The Arab benefactors have hinted that it won't be an open tap.
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And if their benefactors here are actually trying to harm the country?
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San Francisco's strict campaign disclosure laws require petitioners to reveal their benefactors.
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His own living has long been presumed to be underwritten by benefactors.
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Those organizations also receive funding from a variety of other corporate benefactors.
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A previous version of this article misstated the benefactors of that policy.
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You see, the Chamber has become one of the GOP's biggest benefactors.
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Our community is understandably devastated to have lost our hosts and benefactors.
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For a nonprofit with rock-star benefactors, ClientEarth is fairly low key.
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Beyond that, some benefactors came in with contributions of $50,000 or $100,000.
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The Clintons had been among Ms. Gillibrand's earliest and most important benefactors.
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They make certain always to name-check their designer benefactors for E!
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Big benefactors will enjoy big benefits, according to a widely circulated fundraising brochure.
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They are artistes; innovators of taste, benefactors of pleasure and spillers of tee.
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But your benefactors' motives don't matter when you don't have any other options.
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Among the benefactors: US military veterans battling PTSD, suicidal thoughts and other challenges.
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Benefactors such as these can now expect to hobnob regularly with top talent.
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She attracts the paternalistic interest of benefactors who want to see her pardoned.
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In more relaxing times, the position has been a reward to presidential benefactors.
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Women served as prophets, benefactors and as missionaries in the early Christian movement.
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Adelson, a staunch defender of Israel, is one of the GOP's largest benefactors.
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Most of their furniture came from Craigslist or from local benefactors, they said.
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The unidentified oligarch was one of their biggest benefactors, the charging documents said.
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The companies aren't just benefactors, in other words; in a sense they're also clients.
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The couple will host 20 benefactors at Althorp for a traditional English country weekend.
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We have often turned to "crowdfunding" platforms or benefactors to raise legal defense funds.
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But the Snopes investigation found that the websites are often supported by wealthy benefactors.
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In return, oleaginous praise for benefactors seeped from the pages of any eventual work.
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It's a who's who of fossil fuel investors, industry henchmen, and big oil benefactors.
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But Mr. Sisi's government seems to be avoiding questions even from its American benefactors.
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These deep-pocketed benefactors help fund research and development as well as expensive equipment.
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The billionaire investor Joe Ricketts, who founded TD Ameritrade, is among Bellevue University's benefactors.
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Rome's power was built on benefactors and beneficiaries bound by reciprocal obligations of gratitude.
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Journalists in Chicago and Baltimore have made pleas to benefactors to buy their newspapers.
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Although not all of Black Benefactors' members are black, the majority are, says Webb.
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Ombatti said big manufacturers - as the biggest benefactors - should take greater responsibility for global ewaste.
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Trump's businesses inevitably will attract foreign governments as customers, as lenders, or as regulatory benefactors.
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With no legitimate model emerging in its place, many publications have turned to wealthy benefactors.
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Cruz, who has a powerful fundraising machine, has been actively reaching out to new benefactors.
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It seemed inevitable that Hoover, one of tech's most visible benefactors, would jump into investing.
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In both of these cases, states have been benefactors of information and champions for action.
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Afraid of losing to Republican candidates with more money, Democrats coveted access to wealthy benefactors.
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Social enterprises, which reinvest their profits in causes, are often the benefactors of these funds.
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But Hillary Clinton was also an excellent fundraiser, raking in record contributions from Democratic benefactors.
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But while it exists, Mr. Cuomo continues to be one of the loophole's largest benefactors.
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Mr. Simpson's specific areas of focus, and information about any current benefactors, are closely guarded.
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And if the outlets can't make money, benefactors could sell them or shut them down.
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At the same time, wouldn't these rich, high-level benefactors know what they're getting into?
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American democracy was unprepared to defend itself against the agenda of Buchanan and conservative benefactors.
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"It is the most peaceful of benefactors that enters with a like power," he wrote.
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But this report gives us an idea of what institutions America's wealthiest benefactors are supporting.
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Both benefactors, and their contractors, disputed the idea that privacy was invaded or data was endangered.
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What's disturbing about these stories is that they suggest Trump owes unknown chips to his benefactors.
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For years, too, Andrew later mailed packages from Hella in Australia to mysterious benefactors in Poland.
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Do you really want to make the case that financial industry billionaires have been great benefactors?
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For more than a century, he notes, astronomers have relied on the generosity of rich benefactors.
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He would have walked past a wall celebrating benefactors who donated money to help build it.
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As long as Birmingham City don't land any Sith benefactors this should all turn out peachy.
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The delays prevent scientists from showing off their most recent work to prospective employers or benefactors.
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The homes were to be test groups, the exclusive benefactors of an inflated digital media technology.
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Vox Media owns Recode, which owns this podcast, so we're happy to be discussing our benefactors.
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Clemency loop Trump's political benefactors, like Sheldon Adelson and Robert Kraft, asked for the Milken pardon.
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Rogue actors like President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his Iranian benefactors have been warned.
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The GAI is backed by the Mercer family, one of the largest benefactors for Trump's campaign.
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She didn't have any benefactors funding her directly, so she used auction sales to support herself.
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Ito isn't alone, and he won't be the last person to take money from questionable benefactors.
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By 1982, the theater had run out of money and benefactors, and the state took ownership.
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To be sure, the major benefactors of slaveowner reparations within the Atlantic slave system were Europeans.
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Donations from banks and other financial institutions account for the largest share of the foundation's corporate benefactors.
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Jordan, which has long relied on oil supplies from Arab benefactors, is striving for 10% by 2020.
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The thousand benefactors then select businesses to get funding, with ten female-led ventures splitting the pot.
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Some of Success Academy's largest benefactors have also included Trump donors like John Paulson and Robert Mercer.
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An unlikely set of benefactors has truly given him the political gift that will keep on giving.
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Avenatti reportedly suggested that he was seeking $2 million in donations, at least partly from Democratic benefactors.
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Historically, the North Koreans have even been prickly with critical benefactors like China and the Soviet Union.
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On Tuesday, Afghanistan and its allies, neighbors and benefactors gathered here in Uzbekistan's capital to talk again.
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On Discord, anonymous benefactors distribute links to soccer livestreams like handfuls of pigeon feed at the park.
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In the original painting, this young black boy was shown in shackles, subservient to the university benefactors.
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But the collapse of the Soviet Union (and later Venezuela's oil economy), cost Cuba its financial benefactors.
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They were highly successful dealers, major players in Asia Week and benefactors to American and foreign museums.
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It's obvious why shock benefactors appeal to us, with their sudden joyous and viral acts of generosity.
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Will the benefits of having greater production outweigh the ramifications of having fewer owners and benefactors of production?
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So you're looking for benefactors in this, and so I like that this is following a startup pattern.
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His friends and benefactors included the poet E.E. Cummings, the playwright William Saroyan, and the painter Alice Neel.
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In Botswana, co-wives work with rather than against one another and value each other as mutual benefactors.
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Protesters were wrong, however, to lump attendees with the likes of Republican benefactors the Koch brothers, Clooney said.
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They sought the money before their benefactors' ties to Epstein came under scrutiny following his arrest last July.
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Then there are the red blankets that some big Stanford benefactors receive when they check in as patients.
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Several aides received payments from organizations backed by major conservative benefactors such as the Kochs or the Mercers.
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Black Benefactors is tackling this race disparity as it only funds black-led organizations in the D.C. area.
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This is part of a long tradition: wealthy benefactors were responsible for starting many museums in the 19th century.
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If it does not manage the next commodity cycle better, it might find that its benefactors' patience is baikhgui.
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Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech titans should be primary benefactors of society, not net extractors.
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Even as champ, Carnera struggled with money—likely due to his crooked benefactors—and was forced to declare bankruptcy.
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His benefactors do, sure—and he cares about what they want for what are (yet again) painfully obvious reasons.
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Richard Ebers, one of Trump's most generous benefactors, also emptied his pockets for the foundation that year, giving $435,832.
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While FIFA has lobbied for greater government funding of women's teams, private benefactors are often needed to bankroll them.
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Ancient philosophers urged benefactors to eschew corrupted gratia and instead give freely from a desire for the common good.
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Education politics in New York City is often controlled by well-connected lobbyists, wealthy benefactors and crisis communications professionals.
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These are parks without the kind of deep-pocketed benefactors who support the work of the Central Park Conservancy.
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And yet, the marketing and sponsorships from benefactors for college female teams has caught on slower than men's sports.
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After all, these are the kinds of cultural figures whom benefactors want to appear in society-pages photos with.
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Pitchers are the prime benefactors of baseball's unwritten etiquette rules—if you follow proper etiquette, you won't incur pitchers' wrath.
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The couple will host 20 benefactors at Althorp for a traditional English country weekend, complete with a black tie dinner.
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A tree sculpture adorned with those names in the center of the complex provided a fuller picture of Anatevka's benefactors.
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Then, unexpectedly, new benefactors appeared, in the form of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and, to a lesser extent, a booming China.
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When Ukraine was annexed in 2014 the place was shut down and its Cossack benefactors became bitterly divided by nationality.
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But what's more troubling is the evidence that he doesn't stop there, but also actively lends support to corporate benefactors.
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But the anti-shelter fundraiser has some wealthy benefactors and is still nearly $30,000 in the lead, as of publication.
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A broader conundrum facing the country's benefactors is whether they ought to press Mr Kagame not to run in 2017.
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He's meeting with his business partner, Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), and a guy who introduced them to their mysterious benefactors.
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Four years later, and with the backing of benefactors like Curtis and Gyllenhaal, Hondros is finally ready to be seen.
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Many of these idea-brokers are conservatives, backed by such benefactors as brothers David and Charles Koch, the Midwest industrialists.
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Moody's has criticized Bard, 100 miles north of Manhattan, for having little cash and relying on a few rich benefactors.
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Funds in that category are not legally required to reveal their personal benefactors when agreeing to back venture capital firms.
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The plight of small cultural organizations that struggle for benefactors in a city dotted with prestigious institutions is standard fare.
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The turnaround was financed in part by the financial and emotional support of benefactors like Cedella Marley, Bob Marley's daughter.
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Monday is Earth Day, which this museum will celebrate by honoring one of the planet's most industrious benefactors: the honeybee.
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Devin Ross, Shay Fields and Jay MacIntyre were the biggest benefactors of Montez's afternoon with each hauling in receiving touchdowns.
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Steele allegedly told the FBI that he only provided the dossier to the bureau and his benefactors at Fusion GPS.
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The academic landscape has been shaped by rich benefactors such as Ezra Cornell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins and John D. Rockefeller.
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Sinha also needed to make sure that we were good enough to represent them, as we are not their only benefactors.
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The people that come into or leave your life as friends or benefactors are meant to lead you along your path.
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The book shows Leopold vacationing with a couple, a kid and two dogs, but York frustratingly cannot identify her gnome's benefactors.
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Thanks to the priorities of private benefactors and Gulf donors, many villages with unpaved roads and ramshackle schools sport multiple mosques.
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As it stands, we have candidates who are instead backed by petrochemical companies that promise to go easy on their benefactors.
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One example of corrupt leaders becoming tournament benefactors is Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen republic's autocratic leader and an ally of Putin.
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Heller describes a project that funds therapy for black women and girls without requiring them to recount painful memories to benefactors.
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One of her benefactors, Mary Crow, a former poet laureate of Colorado, sent TaTy an anthology of black writers for Christmas.
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Administration officials have not addressed who its disappearance might hurt — philanthropic and cultural institutions who receive valuable treasures from wealthy benefactors.
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Mr. Biden's approach will be different, and far more reliant on the largess of the wealthiest benefactors of the Democratic Party.
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Talent and a noticeable work ethic attracted well-heeled benefactors and helped Tiafoe climb to his current ranking of No. 44.
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They approached Beloit's billionaire benefactors about the idea, and in 2006, the festival opened on a frigid Wisconsin weekday in January.
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It's not clear who his financial backers are since his previous benefactors, the Mercer family, are among those who disavowed him.
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A vast majority of Mr. Trump's donors gave small amounts, and relatively little came in large checks from wealthy Republican benefactors.
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Lesley Searcy, executive director of the Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund, said their benefactors would feel the effects of the proposed rule.
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And of course, private individuals who want to use the BFR, such as taking artists around the Moon, could be key benefactors.
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Those escapees given scholarships to study in America were made by their benefactors to talk endlessly about their abduction for fundraising appeals.
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He also accused the Colombian government, his opponents inside Venezuela and Miami-based benefactors of colluding to set off explosives-laden drones.
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Indeed, the age and inexperience of his staff appeared to be a source of concern for Yiannopoulos vis a vis his benefactors.
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"Citi is so huge and so inter-tangled and so overburdened by regulation, they're going to be benefactors of that," Cordaro said.
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John Mahoney, the beloved dad on "Frasier," left behind millions of dollars ... and TMZ's learned there's a long list of potential benefactors.
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When it comes to competing with teams funded by massively wealthy individual benefactors, a fan-owned club is at an inevitable disadvantage.
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Mr. Trump will face resistance from some of the Republicans' largest benefactors, who have deep networks of their own to turn to.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has always been a big-money politician, relying on large benefactors to accumulate a $31.1 million war chest.
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The second time, the memorial had just completed a $1.5 million restoration, the cost split 50-50 by American and French benefactors.
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"I see more people putting value on Black-led nonprofits through this work," Tracey Webb, the founder of Black Benefactors, tells Axios.
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His plaque calls him "one of sport's finest benefactors" and the first American League owner to have his team travel by plane.
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Bojan Jancic, the pastor of an evangelical church in the East Village, saw the video and later became one of Blahyi's benefactors.
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If its benefactors become more suspect, even among the NRA's base, that could loosen its grip over many American politicians and policymakers.
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Both Black Benefactors' and AWGC's websites describe the nonprofits they've granted money to and how much money they gave to each organization.
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"Maduro's Cuban benefactors provide a lifeline to the regime and enable its repressive security and intelligence apparatus," Mnuchin said in a statement.
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Political analysts say the changes could make politicians much more dependent on generous benefactors and cause them to disregard the public interest.
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Some personal favorites, for any wealthy benefactors reading, include this $507 "Rubies Boobies" necklace and this Stella McCartney day of the week underwear.
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He insisted that his benefactors understand he's simply looking out for himself, as they need to do as well during these violent times.
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This time Ms Madonsela's targets were the government leaders who allegedly did the bidding of the Gupta brothers, wealthy benefactors of Mr Zuma.
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Its true face is just like any other industry—maximizing growth on behalf of VC benefactors—except with less tangible evidence of success.
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The Adelsons were among the Republican Party's largest benefactors this midterm election, donating more than $100 million to GOP super PACs in 2018.
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Established near Los Angeles with funding from Walt Disney's family and other benefactors, the school welcomed its first class of students in 1970.
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Instead of relying on benefactors, external investors or huge faceless wine conglomerates, the company is enabling winemakers to make the wines they want.
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Completely donation-based, the nonprofit gets help from benefactors, and a dog food company that donates over 60 pounds of food per week.
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Further financial assistance was needed to develop Cambodia, so Hun Sen at least maintained enough of a democratic framework to satisfy his benefactors.
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Having recently lost his chief American clients and benefactors, Bannon was now offering Europe's far-right parties his services as a political consultant.
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Most colleges and universities have offices to help would-be benefactors and will send you a gift agreement form to set it up.
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Once again benefactors were to thank: seats in the auditorium are inscribed with the names of those who gave more than £224,357 ($1,440).
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The Adelsons were among the Republican Party's largest benefactors this midterm election, donating a whopping $112 million to GOP super PACs through September.
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The only thing I think that could convince Bannon to retreat, is if his financial benefactors, the Mercers, order him to disavow Moore.
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How many millions of dollars have been wasted by super-PACs like Right to Rise to no great advantage to their supposed benefactors?
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Rather, it processes the gifts through Coinbase, a currency exchange company, and then deposits the cash after conversion into benefactors' donor-advised funds.
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He and his wife, Mary, are benefactors of his alma mater, Southern California, and have given at least $50 million to the school.
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But Mr. Beinecke and his allies eventually prevailed, and the Yale School of Management opened in 1976, with the Beineckes as major benefactors.
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His benefactors, the billionaire hedge fund investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer, bring wealth and their own proven anti-establishment streak.
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" He promised to treat their tribe fairly, telling them that from then on, "they shall know our nation only as friends and benefactors.
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Her benefactors ask that she find out all she can about the school's secret societies — and all of their sinister, even occult, activities.
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The requests, often written on paper ornaments, are chosen by benefactors with funds to spare and a desire to help the less fortunate.
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Cases involving religious disputes often draw professional line-waiters who camp out by the court to reserve seats for their generally anonymous benefactors.
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These three benefactors give the show a flavor of the monied elite in direct opposition to the ideals of many artworks within the show.
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The commission is said to want private investors to provide €1bn-plus before approving a bail-out; such benefactors are understandably hard to find.
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I'm not sure what kind of locker room antics the Cardinals have been conducting, but their PR team have certainly been the direct benefactors.
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It's important to keep in mind, however, is that the most direct benefactors of the Falcon Heavy will be the military and commercial interests.
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But in the earlier times prior to that, I worked in the clubs and I met a lot of people who became my benefactors.
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There's a big-money auction happening, and one of the event's wealthy benefactors falls to the ground clutching his chest shortly before it begins.
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In the coming months the couple will host 20 benefactors at Althorp for a traditional English country weekend, complete with a black-tie dinner.
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Maybe it's because the old system of wealthy benefactors allowed for more freedom than today's toxic combination of late capitalism and viral social media.
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Income inequality doesn't exist because administrators and professors at one school became beholden to corporate benefactors and abdicated their role as educators and thinkers.
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If her past is any guide, DeVos' vision is one of wealthy benefactors showering selected students with opportunities, but it can never be enough.
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Tracey Emin and gallerist Xavier Hufkens are two of five benefactors funding a four-year scholarship for three Syrian refugees at Bard College Berlin.
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Slavery became illegal in the state in 21820, but some of Harvard's benefactors were products of slave-based economies in the South and abroad.
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This past midterm election cycle, the two were among the GOP's largest benefactors, donating a whopping $112 million to Republican super PACs through September.
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While "City" sits on private land, it is within Basin and Range's boundaries, and the federal designation was actively supported by Mr. Heizer's benefactors.
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Its benefactors have included some of the wealthiest families in America, from the Astors and Rockefellers in its early years to the Kochs today.
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One offered to buy it if she rewrote it "in language rather than dialect," Hurston wrote in a letter to one of her benefactors.
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Thomas never explains why the liberal state harms blacks by making whites their benefactors, but the white-controlled prison system is good for them.
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The project's financial backer is the Expedition and Education Foundation, a charity registered in Britain whose benefactors want to remain anonymous, team members said.
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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the largest financial benefactors of the gun-safety movement, is considering entering the Democratic presidential primary.
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The Education Department request asks for all records regarding Dr. Lieber's Chinese benefactors, the Thousand Talents recruitment program and the Wuhan University of Technology.
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Will it address that Patel is of South Asian descent, that Davy's benefactors and antagonists (Ben Whishaw is playing conniving Uriah Heep!) are white?
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Since its founding in 2011, the FGA has attracted a pool of benefactors — mostly wealthy people whose identities are kept secret and conservative foundations.
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The Sacklers have long been prolific cultural benefactors, but their alleged role in the opioid crisis has led some major museums to distance themselves.
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Mnuchin and his family are also major benefactors in the New York City art scene, and he has close ties to Hollywood as well.
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"At most schools, an enormous share of the money donated is coming from a very small handful of super-wealthy, super generous, benefactors," says Linder.
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It seems that he doesn't entirely trust his Romulan benefactors, but whatever he's getting out of the deal is sufficient to keep him playing ball.
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Perhaps providing an environment hospitable to such musings is the best we can expect from the rare benefactors of capitalism, in this day and age.
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The Mercers, expected to be leading benefactors of Trump's White House bid, have been tied to Bannon ever since they became major conservative power players.
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Epidemic has arisen as one of the benefactors of that wave by making it easier for creators to find the legal content that they need.
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But taking money from Malaysia, Indonesia and from further afield, including Saudi Arabia, meant living up to the expectations of ASG's benefactors, Abu Jihad says.
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According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one case involves allegations that Netanyahu has been accepting "lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors" in exchange for promoting their interests.
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They told the judge earlier this week that the exhibits would help demonstrate the close relationship between Manafort and his Russia-friendly benefactors in Ukraine.
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The grantee organization, Obria, has always taken a hard stand against birth control in keeping with the stated Catholic beliefs of its founder and benefactors.
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Contributions to these savings plans qualify for the gift-tax annual exclusion, which is $15,000 per recipient in 2018 ($30,000 for benefactors who are married).
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But he may have to find new benefactors, as Silicon Valley may be less eager to take cash with Saudi ties following the Khashoggi scandal.
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She will not use donor money for the trip, she said, expressing a little anxiety about whether her benefactors would see the travel as frivolous.
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In related news, Stephen Bannon, who backed Mr. Strange's opponent, is teaming up with two longtime benefactors to pull off similar upsets in other races.
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But he defended putting candidates on the list as a way of encouraging benefactors to underwrite the research and scholarships that were important to Harvard.
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Serena Williams's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, has been one of Gauff's longtime benefactors, and he organized a preseason training camp in December in Boca Raton, Fla.
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In 1985 he was in Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" on Broadway, playing a character who at one point has a bowl of stew thrown at him.
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To prepare for the trip, Coleman studied French, solicited benefactors to help finance the venture and found a higher-paying job managing a chili restaurant.
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Also, because a fiscal sponsor is a charitable organization, Black Benefactors (and generally, giving circles that utilize donor-advised funds) can accept tax-deductible donations.
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Political strategists in New York, particularly those who are close to a variety of party benefactors, also have been privately questioning Schultz's intention if he runs.
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The Federalist Society publishes a list of donors in its annual report; in 2017, a quarter of the benefactors in the $100,000-plus tier were anonymous.
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In his 30s, when he was a lawyer mulling his next move, Mr. Cruz sought out wealthy financiers who were major benefactors to gay-rights causes.
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Soros landed on the Republican radar during the 2004 presidential election cycle, when he emerged as a counterweight to the GOP's billionaire benefactors, the Koch brothers.
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Zuma has faced a series of corruptions scandals relating to expansive upgrades to his palatial private home at Nkandla and his murky relationships with alleged benefactors.
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Their ventures, which included Human Events, Regnery Publishing, the Manion Forum, and National Review, among many others, drew from the same pool of supporters and benefactors.
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He and his wife, Rosalynn, have travelled to dozens of affected villages, bringing the attention of health ministers and wealthy benefactors to an otherwise neglected disease.
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For both the left and the right, and everyone in between, it can be hard to see the true benefactors of rising income inequality: professional elites.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads She was a reputable New York socialite, a fashion icon, and one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's greatest benefactors.
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Its benefactors were Edward Drummond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey, members of the family that founded what was to become the Libbey Glass Company in 6003.
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Mr. Steyer made his personal fortune as a hedge fund manager and has emerged over the last decade as one of the Democratic Party's biggest benefactors.
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"Trump knows," wrote another, who said that the "others" Mr. Trump referred to in his tweet might be a sly reference to other shadowy Jewish benefactors.
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Before lunchtime, the Whitney had lost two major benefactors — the lobby is named after Mr. Griffin, and Mr. Kanders and his wife have an adjoining stairwell.
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The 169-member IOM since the 1960s has voted to give the U.S. — one of the group's top benefactors — the reins to lead the group's mission.
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He has been in regular contact with Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, one of the GOP's most prolific benefactors and a staunch pro-Israel figure.
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He claimed that, in addition to receiving money from Weber and other benefactors, he supported J.A.V. with proceeds from his books and donations from his preaching.
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A native of Sevier County, Ms. Parton has become one of the area's most prominent benefactors, and the gesture burnished a reputation that needs no burnishing.
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The state GOP also made quick work of granting its wealthy benefactors and other lucky corporatists some of the lowest corporate tax rates in the nation.
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He remained in power by keeping control of the country's oil and gold mining industries and relying on support of his main benefactors, Cuba and Russia.
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Perhaps it was the dashing grace with which he presided over New York City Ballet's black-tie galas at Lincoln Center, charming benefactors and attracting donations.
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Stanford University's Anderson Collection has accepted a gift of two major works from the estate of one of the university museum's late benefactors, Mary Margaret "Moo" Anderson.
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Prosecutors accuse Mr Netanyahu of taking gifts from wealthy benefactors in return for favours, and offering help with regulatory matters to publishers in exchange for positive coverage.
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Through an Australian nonprofit called The Kick Project, the club recently became the benefactors of a US$12,200 grant from the Australian diplomatic mission in Kuala Lumpur.
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The nation's largest contributors in the current political cycle are Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, staunch Israel benefactors, who have given a reported $50 million to Republican hopefuls.
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The poem, later published in The Royal Danish American Gazette, was so impressive to readers that a scholarship fund for his education was organized by generous benefactors.
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In Philadelphia, donors were handed preferred suites at the Ritz-Carlton and "Friends and Family" packages created for longtime Clinton hands — some of them also longtime benefactors.
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Their crowdfunding effort offers truffle-related rewards for benefactors, and they hope to raise €50,000 by the end of the year to help restore the local ecosystem.
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The first "Messiah" attracted a "most Grand, Polite and crowded Audience"; the performances at the Midnight Mission draw Skid Row residents, charitable workers, benefactors, and musicians' friends.
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There is modest overlap between Mr. Biden's political donors and the benefactors of the Biden Foundation, the only of his nonprofits that has voluntarily disclosed its donors.
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The primary benefactors of an estate tax repeal would not be small businesses or farms, as Mr. Trump claimed; most farmers would not be impacted by it.
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"It's quite an irony: Bernie's two biggest benefactors are billionaires," said Biden campaign pollster John Anzalone, pointing out that Sanders has built a campaign around demonizing billionaires.
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THE CLOSER And finally … Happy anniversary to the Smithsonian's National Zoo, which opened in 1891 and is 130 years old this week, according to historians and benefactors.
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Past Unite the Country's benefactors include LinkedIn founder and Greylock Partners VC Reid Hoffman (who contributed $500,000) and angel investor Ronald Conway ($250,000), according to FEC data.
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In a growing social phenomenon across the Middle East, powerful benefactors have stepped in to sponsor large-scale ceremonies to make sure that young people get married.
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Neither China nor Russia have any deep interest in crimping the DPRK's nuclear and missile threat, for it will not launch nuclear bombs at its two benefactors.
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Clarification: This story was updated to clarify that Zuckerberg is selling stock to finance CZI, while Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is funded by additional benefactors, including Reid Hoffman.
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Today, if you are conservative or liberal, you have your own television networks, newspapers, magazines, blogs, podcasts, media watchdogs, foundations, opinion research, authors, thought leaders and benefactors.
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"Senate Republicans have spent a year writing bills without any Democratic input that hurt the middle class and pleased their wealthy, hard-right benefactors," Mr. Schumer said.
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Until the new peace agreement, the FARC in Colombia have been the most obvious benefactors of the cocaine trade, alongside the Shining Path and Sandinistas in Peru.
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Lovers and benefactors—sometimes one and the same—gave her the power and money to run her business, and the attention and approval she wanted above all else.
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It's also good, per Smart Asset, for estate planning, if a will is being divided up and the benefactors need a neutral party to sort it all out.
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When he was drowning in debt in 2005, and dependent on benefactors, he even received help from Nelson Mandela, who gave him 1m rand ($148,000 at the time).
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They had the foresight to see that the end — or the beginning, according to Wilhemina — was coming, so with the help of benefactors and investors, they made provisions.
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It also helps that Mellie's mysterious benefactors, Peus (David Warshofsky) and Rueland (Zoe Perry), have "persuaded" the electors to put their woman of choice in the Oval Office.
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When white benefactors, whose noblesse oblige blinds them to their own racism, gather for dinner, Bledsoe discreetly excuses himself rather than offend their sensibilities by dining with them.
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One of the big benefactors is likely to be the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which some polls say has overtaken the PD as Italy's most popular party.
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It's men, not women, Devlin claims, who are the economic benefactors for their children—even if those men aren't granted custody rights, as Devlin is quick to decry.
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Clinton characterized corruption as a matter of individual intent, calling on Sanders to name an instance in which she's changed her mind at the behest of her benefactors.
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Ms. Midler, with support from her "Hello, Dolly!" cast, including David Hyde Pierce, performed a family-friendly parody called "Hello, Dollars!" to thank the evening's most generous benefactors.
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One of the events will be held at the home of Gerald and Darlene Jordan, prominent South Florida socialites who were major benefactors to Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign.
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And in the wake of an establishment-backed candidate's loss in Alabama, a top McConnell political lieutenant, Steven Law, held a series of frank discussions with key benefactors.
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Among its benefactors is LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman Zuckerberg is selling billions of dollars in Facebook stock to fund CZI, which he and Chan started in 2015.
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He was also known for treating with equal dignity the struggling people he aided and the benefactors who helped him support and expand Henry Street's programs in Manhattan.
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The penalties are part of the Treasury Department's latest move to punish Pyongyang's economic benefactors in an effort to further pressure the North to dismantle its nuclear stockpile.
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I remember hearing that it's where the dancers used to meet the benefactors back in the day when the ballerinas were sort of romantically involved with their patrons.
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Inheritance taxes have large negative incentive effects (look at the estate-planning industry) and they are easy to avoid (benefactors can just spend all their wealth during their lifetimes).
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The fact is, sharing isn't always caring because enabling loved ones who are bad at managing money doesn't really help them — or their benefactors, either — in the long run.
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The two biggest benefactors, SpaceX and Boeing, have each received upwards of $3 billion from NASA to develop systems for ferrying astronauts to low Earth orbit and the ISS.
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"Meritorious benefactors", among them tycoons and government officials (the distinction not always clear), contribute to Mr Hun Sen's beloved projects and are awarded ornate titles and sinecures in return.
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It invites a certain plutocratic tribalism, where loyalties run to benefactors (in and out of government) and where Congress loses control over the shape, reach, and complexion of government.
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The stay-at-home economy is undoubtedly flourishing, so Cramer turned to one of its biggest benefactors to see how it is staying afloat: online food delivery giant Grubhub.
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The penalties are part of the Treasury Department's newest effort to punish North Korea's economic benefactors as the Trump administration looks to achieve a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Out-of-state liberal benefactors Tom Steyer and George Soros had gone all-in behind him, funding GOTV efforts with paid organizers in vote-rich South and Central Florida.
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The impact of app streaming is not limited to the industries above, though I anticipate these five will be early benefactors, given their challenges on the mobile app front.
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The Ziffs have been welcomed as deep-pocketed, well-meaning benefactors by most of the surfers on tour, including Slater, who is, after all, one of their business partners.
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If fund-raising efforts can help both the sanctuary and Norcia live again, they say, the monks are happy to repay their benefactors — even in a small, frothy way.
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At the same time, they must mollify the wealthy benefactors who help keep the lights on and would rather not see their donations open them up to public examination.
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Mr. Fischer is a board member of various glass collectors' groups, and the couple are founding members of the Ennion Society of benefactors at the Corning Museum of Glass.
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Epstein's involvement in plans to secure wealthy benefactors for various foundations and organizations has come under scrutiny following his suicide last month ahead of a federal sex trafficking trial.
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That resulted in a 20-point plan focused on what the team, which is part government-funded alongside sponsorship from Emirates, Toyota and wealthy benefactors, had to do differently.
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But his family now receives a monthly stipend three times larger than the average annual Palestinian income – all courtesy of the Palestinian Authority and, by extension, their American benefactors.
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Weinberg is a world-class persuader, though, and a majority of the trustees and a surprising number of benefactors and city officials fell in love with Hammons's ghost pier.
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This points to yet another problem with the shock benefactors' gifts: They are often given to the most heralded universities rather than to far needier community and state colleges.
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Now one of the benefactors of this program, Sonitus, announced it has received a multi-million dollar contract to develop two-way communication devices that clip to the users' teeth.
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Those wartime benefactors were fueled by a love of country, by the belief that responding to the Red Cross's pitch to aid wounded soldiers was a lofty form of patriotism.
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"It is difficult to sever ties and denounce your heroes, your benefactors, whom you fondly admired and felt a debt of gratitude toward for your entire career's existence," Sorvino added.
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However, with MSA Formula using the same Mygale F4 chassis as Australian F4, Leeds has set a high target for his second season with the car – as have his benefactors.
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The stay-at-home economy is undoubtedly flourishing, so Jim Cramer turned to one of its biggest benefactors to see how it is staying afloat: online food delivery giant Grubhub.
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Apparently in CNN's brave new world, offensive speech dating before Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was Speaker is more important than Clinton's behind-closed-doors promises to her benefactors.
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It had fallen into disrepair by the end of the 211th century and was restored by the Irving family, founders of the Irving Oil company and Saint John's greatest benefactors.
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"Everything is progressively getting a little more difficult but it's nothing that a good study regimen can't handle," she wrote to her benefactors in the fall of her freshman year.
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Mr. Bush later wrote in his autobiography that he had been "disgusted" by the jockeying for pardons by people with connections who pulled strings for their friends and wealthy benefactors.
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Our source tells us Sheen's been given tickets to the game, and his benefactors are hoping to get him a prime seat, just a few rows behind the Indians dugout.
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Part of Ms. Hunt's role is finding corporate benefactors like Absolut and Viacom to work with emerging artists, who often can't afford to pay her more than $1,500 a month.
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What is needed, instead, are local agents of change who are free of the influence of political benefactors and committed to expanding economic choices for individuals in low-income populations.
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And collections that were opened to the public by wealthy owners as vanity projects or tax strategies are closing as their benefactors get bored, tire of losing money or die.
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He argued that hampering federal law enforcement's efforts to target corruption hurts the public by allowing government officials to operate in the interests of wealthy donors and other private benefactors.
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China's growing leverage over academia has also come under scrutiny as universities have become increasingly dependent on tuition paid by Chinese students and, in some cases, donations from Chinese benefactors.
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Just a ferry ride away, back on Great Guana Cay, residents are grateful to the affluent benefactors whose local ties moved them to dispatch aid days before the authorities arrived.
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And unlike many benefactors, who just give money away, Mr. Cullman and his wife, who died in 21942, often took active roles in shaping their beneficiaries' cultural and educational projects.
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His soaring ascent in the race has been propelled overwhelmingly by the enthusiasm of white voters, and especially college-educated whites — including some of the Democratic Party's wealthiest political benefactors.
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It is a contemporary, digital take on the old school idea of artistic patronage, in which benefactors would provide the financial support for creatives, so that they could make their art.
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Hinckley's case manager, Jonathan Weiss, said the boards of several nonprofit organizations in town have turned down Hinckley's requests to volunteer for fear they would lose benefactors, according to court records.
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Following a longstanding investigation, police will recommend the Israeli prime minister be indicted on charges including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, for allegedly accepting bribes and gifts from wealthy benefactors.
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That's according to data cited by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which identified the issue of time poverty as a central focus in an annual letter released by its wealthy benefactors.
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It is also a microcosm of the lawlessness permeating swathes of Mexico where cartels have for years replaced the state as benefactors, providing jobs and handouts in return for residents' loyalty.
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Ms. Brown, along with two other people, collected more than $833,000 in charitable donations, telling benefactors that their money would help students pay for college and allow schools to receive computers.
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One of the biggest instigators — and benefactors — of Germany's newfound social-media rage machine has been the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, known by its German initials A.f.
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Officials flatly rejected her facetious first suggestion that the maturing tropical depressions also be called "him-icanes," and that the center bestow storm names to honor its bloviating benefactors in Congress.
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But the move could force Iraq to choose between either shunning its Iranian benefactors or defying American demands to protect demonstrators as the Shiite-led government faces a deepening political crisis.
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So you have a new leader of a country locked in conflict with much more powerful Russia speaking to one of its principal international benefactors, which has recently suspended military aid.
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Effective estate planning goes beyond saving on taxes: Benefactors need to start talking to heirs about their charitable wishes well before they die to ensure the best use of their money.
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Roth conversions have long been the choice of considerate benefactors mindful that, in leaving heirs an IRA, they were passing along the annoyance of paying tax on the income they invested.
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A recent poll showed that Serbs wrongly believe Russia is one of their main benefactors, even though the more than €3bn ($3.16bn) that the EU has provided since 2000 dwarfs Russian aid.
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They see themselves as heirs to a civilization whose members' continued socialization they contribute to, and they know that cultural generosity, as historical benefactors have shown, is the path to civilizational greatness.
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And he used his penchant for wood carving to salvage scraps from the Intrepid's flight deck and transform them into models of the carrier, given as mementos to important guests and benefactors.
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Israel's right-wing government has proposed legislation to limit foreign donations from governments and private benefactors to B'Tselem and many other Israeli NGOs, something that could severely restrict their ability to operate.
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For almost three decades, Mr. Hanks and Ms. Wilson have been benefactors of the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, hosting "Simply Shakespeare" every year — a comedic, impromptu reading of the playwright's work.
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Now one of the gun group's major benefactors says he is preparing to lead an insurgency among wealthy contributors to oust Mr. LaPierre as chief executive, along with his senior leadership team.
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"Trump has spent much of the past four days tending to campaign benefactors and preoccupied with his own political future," the Post's Phil Rucker, Bob Costa, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey report.
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The article provides some of the most comprehensive examples to date of the avenues that corporations and their billionaire benefactors, including the Koch brothers, use to bend the rules in their favor.
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In that regard, the project is exceptionally well cast at the margins, including Mike Farrell and Michael Nouri as two of Cunanan's benefactors, as well as Judith Light as Farrell's oblivious spouse.
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Watts said the new super-PAC "will not accept special interest PAC contributions," which appears to be a concession to Trump's desire not to be viewed as being beholden to wealthy benefactors.
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Adelson and his wife, Miriam, donated a staggering $22010 million through the end of September to super PACs focused on federal races, cementing the family's position as the Republican Party's largest benefactors.
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When we're not careful, the people we care about often become residual benefactors: We leave them for last, giving them whatever bits of time are left over after we've attended to everything else.
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But now, as allegations of the Saudi government's purported murder of the dissenting journalist arise, benefactors of this cultural campaign have been faced with the ominous underbelly of their relationship to the nation.
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We've assumed the (human) body to be the most valuable substance on Earth, presumably due to our sentience, with little self-awareness of how the qualifications of value are determined by the benefactors.
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Rubio simply has to do well enough on Super Tuesday to maintain the appearance of being a bona fide challenger to Donald Trump in the eyes of his GOP backers and wealthy benefactors.
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Much of Trump's fundraising comes from small donations, suggesting that his grassroots base could play a bigger role than wealthy benefactors in his quest to stay in the White House for eight years.
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In Potlatch—a festival of elaborate giving practiced by various cultures of the Pacific Northwest—the goal is to give so much, and so lavishly, that your benefactors are perpetually in your debt.
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In less than 85033 hours, Bannon had been publicly pummeled by the president of the United States, and reportedly left for dead by Robert and Rebekah Mercer, his benefactors and partners at Breitbart.
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If Harbin and her benefactors really cared about American prosperity, they would be calling for even more support for renewables—and for an end to all tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuels.
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Their benefactors may not be large in number (conference attendance was 77), but they are as fierce in their loyalty as donkeys are in defense of their territories (more about donkey fierceness later).
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Celebrities have long been the benefactors of lucrative beauty contracts, but now more and more makeup and hair care companies are negotiating arrangements with the so-called "glam squads" behind the famous faces.
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But the more important question to put to those whose work was made precarious by this fight is, why are you putting your trust in political benefactors to help people in poor places?
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Three different firms handled her new book, "Successful Philanthropy: How to Make a Life by What You Give," a guide for modern benefactors, leading to much bickering over who deserves credit for what.
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Most of the other rebel groups relied on outside benefactors to survive—from the private donors in the Gulf to the intelligence services of countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States.
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Santa Rosa is a microcosm of the lawlessness that permeates large swathes of Mexico where cartels have for years replaced the state as benefactors, providing jobs and handouts in return for residents' loyalty.
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It's also worth noting that almost all of the "facts" that Trump cited during his address were credited to the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank whose benefactors include Charles and David Koch.
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Scott has a covert mission on behalf of some shadowy corporate figures: he's looking for a discarded prosthetic device containing a secret biological weapon, which his benefactors are trying to keep out of sight.
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And artists, songwriters, performers and musicians — the real owners of the industry — will be the main benefactors, for they will finally be able to own their creations and get their due for their efforts.
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In exchange for food, lodging, and prestige, poets would provide wealthy benefactors with writing that extolled their virtues, as well as act as general companions and creative writing coaches for the patron's own work.
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The new penalties are the Treasury Department's latest effort to punish North Korea's economic benefactors as the Trump administration attempts to cement a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's government.
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And while it overlaps with efforts to protect the asylum rights of new immigrants, its primary benefactors are individuals who have already been living in the United States and are being threatened with deportation.
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Moving ahead with the vote on the proposal could incite bigger protests and even unrest, but backing down risks emboldening the opposition and drawing the ire of her party benefactors, who back the bill.
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The Trump administration's national security policy calls for challenging both countries, which are the chief benefactors of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and have provided him with years of financial and military support.
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After stalling during the 2008-3003 recession, the project was completed through a public-private partnership that capped the city's funding at $225 million while Mr. Bass and other civic benefactors contributed the rest.
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The careers of top riders can last decades, so the best horses and the richest benefactors have a way of gravitating to them, concentrating the glory of dressage like the blood of the Hapsburgs.
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BuzzFeed News previously reported that Thiel is exploring the possibility of developing his own conservative news network and had engaged the Mercer family, the main benefactors of Breitbart News, as a possible source of funding.
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There must be scores of other eager benefactors waiting for the still missing Chibok girls to be found so that they can be whisked away to safety in America, land of freedom and boundless dreams.
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Perhaps Everytown is waiting to see whether Michael Bloomberg, one of its largest single benefactors and the founder of Everytown subsidiary Mayors Against Illegal Guns, will indeed make an independent bid for the White House.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Financial centers outside the European Union would be the benefactors if the European Union sought to punish the City of London as Britain leaves the bloc, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Wednesday.
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So over the summer, when a group of benefactors offered the main airport a $200,000 bronze statue of him — arms outstretched as if to welcome travelers — it seemed like a natural gift for the city.
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On Monday, ABC News, citing email exchanges, reported that Ms. Butina had organized a Moscow visit in December 2015 by a group of N.R.A. board members, fund-raisers and benefactors who met with Mr. Torshin.
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Retreating could make her look weak and risks drawing the ire of her party benefactors, who support the bill, but moving ahead with a vote on the proposal could incite even more protests and unrest.
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But Jakovleva said her family was ultimately able to pay the tennis bills through its own savings, funding from friends and other private benefactors, a few commercial sponsors and the International Tennis Federation's development fund.
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The mayor is now borrowing from the playbook of his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, whose overhaul of the education system relied in part on donations from major private institutions and prominent benefactors across the country.
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The two former Soviet Republics have been embroiled in a "frozen" conflict over the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh that Armenia, with the help of their Russian benefactors, has occupied for more than 25 years.
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Schumer the skilled legislator is the indispensable American against legislation that would greatly damage health care in America and rewrite the tax code through backroom deals involving only Republicans and their lobbyist benefactors and beneficiaries.
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Nowhere was this more profound than in the Eastern Pacific – and the Transnational Criminal Organizations were the benefactors of a diminished presence at a time when over 60,000 Americans perish each year from drug overdoses.
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The seizure of the money had been ordered by Mr. Abadi, who was furious at the prospect of militias, and their Iranian and Hezbollah benefactors, being paid so richly right under the Iraqi government's nose.
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The act preserves the lifelong stretch period for surviving spouses, minor children, the chronically ill and other individuals who aren't more than 10 years younger than their benefactors; the latter category would include most siblings.
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Backing down risks making her look weak and drawing the ire of her party benefactors, who back the bill, but moving ahead with the vote on the proposal could incite even more protests and unrest.
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And it also showed how, at least in the judgment of prosecutors, a leading political operative and one of his most important benefactors tried to shape government oversight in one of the nation's largest states.
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Have never been told what to write or do by an advertiser, and if I was I would quit And yet, journos are very willing to pursue stories that burn advertisers and other financial benefactors.
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Bannon had ticked off the conservative billionaire Mercer family, benefactors to both Trump and Breitbart, with his comments in the new book "Fire and Fury" by journalist Michael Wolff — comments highly critical of the White House.
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Mr Sisi's benefactors in the Gulf, who have propped up his regime with perhaps $30 billion in cheap loans, central-bank deposits and fuel, are reputedly running out of patience and risk running out of money.
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His son Kim Jong Il took power in 1994 when the economy was in a tailspin after the Soviet Union, one of its main benefactors, collapsed, and relations with the United States were at a low.
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Some Republican officials elected even mimicked the language of the conspiracy theory spread by Trump, citing "almost professional-agent provocateurs" who are "encouraged" by mysterious benefactors as their reason for voting in favor of SB 2150.
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Picking and choosing which companies we deny or allow standard business deductions based upon a clear political agenda is just bad leadership and the senator's intention is likely to harm competitors of his New Jersey benefactors.
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Mr. McConnachie put together quite a crew as the project's benefactors: Mr. Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and Lorne Michaels, Harold Ramis and Michael O'Donoghue, along with some New Yorker cartoonists and other Lampoon alumni.
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While the new groups gained early traction mostly on the strength of grass-roots volunteers and small donations — and with relatively meager overall budgets — they are beginning to attract attention from the left's most generous benefactors.
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As for the Edwards standard, the case failed because prosecutors could not prove that the former North Carolina senator received campaign donations from benefactors to influence an election, rather than simply cover up an embarrassing affair.
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In a 2015 Times Op-Ed, a young physician drew attention to how hospitals provide particular blankets to benefactors and other V.I.P.s when they check in, quietly signaling those patients' special status to doctors and nurses.
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Since October, when revelations about the producer Harvey Weinstein unleashed accusations against other men, organizations have rapidly distanced and denounced their now-unsavory benefactors, in an effort to keep the rest of their donors from fleeing.
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In a region where marriage remains highly valued but economic pressures and costly celebrations have priced many couples out, powerful benefactors have stepped in, sponsoring large-scale ceremonies to make sure that young people get hitched.
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After all, many of the conservative outlets of news and opinion, funded as they are by wealthy benefactors like Philip Anschutz (The Weekly Standard), are not dependent financially on marketplace factors like advertising or subscription revenue.
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But as Rosenstein went to some pains to emphasize, no American was charged, no evidence of knowing coordination between the Trump campaign and its Russian benefactors was presented and no votes were changed by Putin's cyber skunks.
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"Both businesses and consumers will benefit substantially, but I think the biggest winner will be merchants, application providers and SMBs," TrueLayer co-founder Francesco Simoneschi tells me when I ask him who the biggest benefactors will be.
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That outcry from the patrons inspired a similar outcry from creators, with some threatening to quit Patreon for Drip, Kickstarter's soon-to-launch platform for creators and benefactors — a platform that looks a whole lot like Patreon.
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She further grieved him by up and moving to New York City, where she reconnected with Capote, worked as an airline ticket agent and found generous benefactors: the couple Joy and Michael Brown (he wrote for Broadway).
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The end result is that those who feed from this trough are unable to engage in an honest conversation about the policies and behaviors of their benefactors — even when they fly in the face of U.S. interests.
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Thus, Thomas rejects affirmative action not because it harms whites, as other conservatives claim, but because it harms blacks, brands them with a "badge of inferiority," elevates whites to the status of benefactors and perpetuates white supremacy.
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For years, Amerkhanian and Vandemoer operated out of a contemporary boathouse on the edge of San Francisco Bay named for the developer John Arrillaga Sr., a former Stanford basketball player and one of the university's largest benefactors.
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But the book is not just about Knight and Oregon; it's about how public universities are compromising themselves in exchange for endorsement deals and financial partnerships — and about what happens when universities become shills for their billionaire benefactors.
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How a change of leadership could affect the economy's slow recovery — and reform efforts that are a condition of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — are likely to be at the forefront of Ukraine's benefactors' minds.
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While Mr. Trump's war on the Republican establishment has galvanized his supporters, it is likely to complicate his efforts to court a broader array of voters, including moderate Republicans, and political benefactors in order to compete in November.
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When Jerome begins leading Grace into deep hypnosis, we expect to finally find out if she killed Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin) and Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross), or if she's innocent, as her Spiritualist benefactors so pray she is.
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Conservative and liberal organizations — many backed by well-known, deep-pocketed benefactors like the Kochs, Tom Steyer and George Soros — have already sunk more than $214 million into the Nevada race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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"Frum is nothing more than a mediocre man with bad opinions, which makes it all the more puzzling how much personal history his benefactors are willing to overlook," wrote Alex Nichols on the reliably leftist website, The Outline.
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Half of the Democratic caucusgoers preferred the nonconformist senator from Vermont over the tried and tested Clinton; two-thirds of the Republicans gave their votes to Cruz and other candidates who are estranged from G.O.P. cliques, elites and benefactors.
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Since his release, he has spoken out against the dangers of what he says is an inherently corrupt system where financial aid and other perks are provided to politicians who only naturally take care of benefactors they consider friends.
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A report this year by Credit Suisse showed that the industry added $20013 billion in 2016 from rocketing drug prices; Sean Williams, an investor at financial services company Motley Fool, listed Lilly as one of the practice's major benefactors.
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It was formed to ensure Hannover did not become one of the few permitted exceptions to the 50+1 rule (both Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are, officially, "works" teams, and with their longtime corporate benefactors have different ownership structures).
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A design has been approved, a location has been reserved and generous "seed" contributions from benefactors have allowed the World War I Centennial Commission to proceed with their challenge of privately raising the $50 million needed for a memorial.
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And that mistake only happened after messing up countless times while running their own agency for an assortment of shadowy benefactors, not to mention a brief and reckless detour into light drug dealing, in a Miami Vice–inspired set of adventures.
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And the reason why Mylan gets away with this – just like they get away with incorporating out of the U.S. using the dubious inversion strategy for tax efficiency – is because powers that be love to provide liquidity to their benefactors!
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The sheer size of the audience that visits Monterey Car Week is a reminder that the love for the gasoline-powered, four-wheeled motor car isn't dead, and there are many well-to-do benefactors intent on preserving its legacy.
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Donald J. Trump has faced a chilly reception from the Republican Party's major donors: Some of the party's most generous benefactors have said they are undecided about supporting him, while others have flatly said they will never give to his campaign.
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Relative to other progressive special interests, the immigrant rights movement has traditionally been a pauper's crusade, lacking in billionaire benefactors and financially outmatched by ideological rivals like the Center for Immigration Studies, the Federation of American Immigration Reform and NumbersUSA.
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But she agreed to take on the role after meeting the players, and has since become one of a very small but powerful group of benefactors of women's soccer in countries where players have been largely ignored, dismissed and severely underfunded.
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It emerges that Cunanan — who graduated from an elite private high school in San Diego and, after dropping out of college, lived off a series of benefactors — tells so many lies that even he may have come to believe them.
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Wealthy benefactors — including the French energy company Total, L'Oréal and the family of Bernard Arnault, the richest man in France — quickly pledged hundreds of millions toward restoration of what, even in its charred state, remained a national and global treasure.
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At The Chicago Tribune, some worried reporters have gone so far as to call wealthy, civic-minded Chicagoans and others who might be potential benefactors, asking them to invest in or purchase the paper and run it as a public trust.
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A manifestation of simplistic nostalgia for Southern white supremacy, it was one of scores of such monuments erected at the height of the Jim Crow era, and it was paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and university benefactors.
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UEFA, European football's governing body, has been investigating the club for possible breaches of its Financial Fair Play regulations, which are supposed to stop clubs from getting into unmanageable debt or allowing wealthy benefactors to give top teams an unfair advantage.
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Starting with the IRA bequests from benefactors who die this year, heirs are now required to withdraw all money from these accounts within 10 years and pay ordinary income tax on each withdrawal in the year that they take it.
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Some benefactors pledged more than $100 million each, including François-Henri Pinault, whose wealth comes from luxury brands like Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and Bernard Arnault, the richest person in Europe and chief executive of the luxury goods conglomerate LVMH.
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Mr Unz argues that relentless endowment-fuelled spending on new buildings, sports facilities and the hiring of administrators has created an arms-race in higher education, pushing up prices at those universities that are not fortunate enough to have lots of generous benefactors.
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Furthermore, the UN and other benefactors continue to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars of aid each year to regime-held areas, even though Assad illegally prevents the aid from reaching rebel-held territory and may be diverting it to his own coffers.
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But to some leading Republican benefactors who have advocated a tougher line with Mr. Trump, the party should have distanced itself from his candidacy well before the publication of a recording last week in which he boasted profanely about committing sexual assault.
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When the race got close with Republican Karen Handel, however, Ossoff changed his tune, refusing to discuss his San Francisco benefactors, declining to back a single-payer health care plan, and going so far to say that he would work with President Trump.
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Recently, this has begun to change, as the Met adjusts itself to the reality that in museums everywhere, contemporary art is an overwhelmingly popular audience draw, not to mention an area of interest to a high percentage of collector-trustees and other benefactors.
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But the Saudi legal system sometimes allows the families of killers — or other benefactors who support the families — to pay "blood money" to the relatives of murder victims in exchange for an agreement to relinquish the right to demand the death penalty.
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What they will recommend is not publicly known, though it is known that one case under investigation involves gifts from benefactors, and the other allegations that Mr. Netanyahu tried to get favorable coverage from a newspaper in exchange for curtailing a competitor.
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For Huntsman, that was part of a broader history of turning on erstwhile political benefactors: After Obama appointed him China ambassador, Huntsman ran to be Obama's opponent in the 2012 presidential election, and continued to criticize the president's foreign policy after he lost.
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The new survey released Tuesday showed that almost three quarters of respondents felt they lack a full strategy for transferring their wealth to the next generation and just 28.13 percent of inheritors say they felt prepared by their benefactors before receiving wealth.
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The organization is supported by members, and the paper lists among its benefactors both of Mark Zuckerberg's organizations -- Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- alongside local biotech giant Genentech (owned by Swiss pharma giant Roche Holding AG), Stanford University, and other non-profits.
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The government will continue to seek loans from benefactors such as China and Russia to ramp up spending on subsidized bags of food and salary bonuses in the run-up to the election, only to put the heavily indebted economy at further risk.
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Wald opened it in 1895 with the aid of wealthy benefactors, providing health care on a sliding fee, as well as social services, English-language instruction and a visiting-nurse program, which by 1913 had 92 nurses making 200,000 visits a year.
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But it presents more than enough evidence to suggest that his wealthy benefactors—the brothers Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta—were involved in the firing and appointment of government ministers and the award of large contracts by Eskom, the large state-owned electricity utility.
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Over time, Pompeo got to know some of the city's wealthiest benefactors, including David Murfin, one of the largest independent oil producers in Kansas, and Charles and David Koch, the billionaire Republican donors and skeptics of environmental regulation, whose company is headquartered in Wichita.
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Dava Sobel, a former science writer for the New York Times who made her name with her bestselling first book, "Longitude" (1995), has spent several years poring over letters and studying archives in order to tell the story of the women-astronomers and their benefactors.
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But those figures are bandied about in the press without concern for their propagandisitic effect, perhaps, because to know these things would be to expose the extent to which the press has played precisely the role Hamas and their benefactors wanted them to play.
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The benefactors requested for their names to be withheld and asked that their generosity not be acknowledged during the official inauguration for the spruced-up grotto, whose architectural wonders were for so long hidden by wild plants and left at the mercy of the elements.
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It is good that we have laws designed to prevent foreign governments influencing our elections—it would be an awful nightmare for the future survival of our planet to have candidates, backed by petrochemical dictatorships, promising to go easy on their benefactors, for example.
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Instead of giving workers an even landscape so that they have the tools to decide for themselves whether or not they want to join a collective bargaining unit, the Obama Administration and its Big Labor benefactors seem hell bent on forcing workers into the collective.
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Simply put, the most powerful among us -- elected officials, their benefactors and high-ranking staffers, allied consultants, and some heavyweight analysts -- have traditionally enjoyed a certain self-enforced privilege: the freedom to actively seek out and in most cases find a break from politics.
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The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that police chiefs, including the general commissioner of Israel's police force, were in "unanimous agreement" that Netanyahu should be indicted for allegedly accepting bribes and receiving lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors, including Israeli-born Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.
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Those benefactors have Candie, Mandie and Sandie bring the Jones family a tray of finger sandwiches; then later that same day, they serve the revived Coop coffee in a fancy glass mug, as they transport him to their private jet to whisk him to Washington.
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WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon and two of his longtime benefactors are putting together a political coalition designed to ensure that the victory of a Republican insurgent in the Alabama Senate primary this week was just the beginning of the surprises that await the party establishment.
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Adele C. Smithers, who expanded on her husband's bequests to help recovering alcoholics at a Manhattan treatment center and, in the process, won a consequential lawsuit that empowered benefactors and their families to oversee their charitable contributions, died on Monday in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Teachers in more and more places are calling B.S. on the idea that there's no money to provide them with a decent wage or keep their pensions solvent, when there always seems to be money for another favor to politicians' big donors and corporate benefactors.
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At the "March for Truth" in Los Angeles, which I attended, the main theme was that Trump had committed treason; Soviet-era and homophobic iconography was appropriated to portray Trump as a "puppet" who has sold out the American people on behalf of his Russian benefactors.
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The creation of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in recent years -- a joint effort of international researchers, the Polish authorities and generous benefactors from abroad -- was a milestone in this process, as was the establishment of flagship JCCs in Krakow and Warsaw.
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But where the heirs take the view that the paintings in question were sent to Krefeld on loan for the planned exhibition before it was canceled, the city's researchers suggest the works could have been acquired by one of the museum's benefactors and donated to the city.
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She established herself as a formidable fund-raiser and made still more friends upon landing a seat in 1993 on the Appropriations Committee — which, before Congress curtailed the practice, controlled the process of distributing the lucrative earmarks that members sought for their districts, constituents and benefactors.
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To recognize Mr. Zelensky's dilemma in the face of a White House incapable of distinguishing between national and personal interests is not to excuse his pandering or his insults to generous European benefactors or well-wishing American diplomats who earnestly sought ways to help his country.
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In that climate, an avowedly anti-Iranian group in Iraq, such as the one targeted two weeks ago, can expect to have local allies in Iran and even unwitting or possibly witting international benefactors -- even if there are no official lines of command, control and responsibility.
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Wirecutter has caught a lot of guff recently, for its referral link model and for not being able to pick single objects that work for absolutely everyone (ironically, this criticism comes from outlets that each exist but for the grace of extremely wealthy Silicon Valley benefactors).
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The work is now on loan from the estate to the Stadtmuseum and would have been part of the exhibition, which was to be largely funded by Jewish benefactors in Montreal with curators from the Stadtmuseum, Concordia and the Stern archive at the National Gallery of Canada.
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Here's something I wrote toward the end of Scandal's second season, over at my old publication, the A.V. Club: Scandal is full of moments when the government fails to protect its citizens because it's too busy protecting itself—or the rich men who are its greatest benefactors.
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"It is difficult to sever ties and denounce your heroes, your benefactors, whom you fondly admired and felt a debt of gratitude toward for your entire career's existence," Sorvino wrote, but ultimately, she said, she believes Dylan's account, and apologized for refusing to do so earlier.
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Even as roughly 300,000 students attended HBCUs in 2015, the share of black students attending HBCUs has fallen from 17 percent in 1980 to 9 percent in 2014, according to the Pew Research Center, affecting tuition rates, loan affordability, and endowments from alumni or other benefactors.
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But after critics assailed a plan to renovate those seven floors into a lending library and public space, library officials decided to renovate space beneath Bryant Park with an $8 million donation from Abby and Howard Milstein, longtime library benefactors, to house the bulk of the research material.
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Indian Wells, California (CNN)At a confab in the California desert this weekend, leaders of the powerful political and policy network founded by billionaire benefactors Charles and David Koch issued a stark warning for the midterm elections: President Donald Trump's unpopularity could be churning up a Democratic wave.
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"It is really going to be up to the French state and benefactors to help to restore and rebuild this," Robert Read, head of art and private client at Lloyd's of London insurer Hiscox told Reuters, adding it could take up to 20 years to restore the cathedral.
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What is needed, to begin with, is for university administrators to identify political history as a priority, for students and families to lobby their schools, for benefactors to endow professorships and graduate fellowships and for lawmakers and school boards to enact policies that bolster its teaching — and without politicizing the enterprise.
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After a yearlong investigation, Israeli police concluded this week "there is sufficient evidence" to indict Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two cases that boil down to accepting material gifts and favorable newspaper coverage in exchange for possible political quid pro quos to wealthy benefactors.
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After Dougie jabbed a dessert fork into a light socket in "Part 15," he apparently lapsed into a coma and was taken to a hospital, where he's fussed over by his wife, Janey-E, his son Sonny Jim, his boss, Bushnell Mullins, and his mobbed-up benefactors, Bradley and Rodney Mitchum.
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It's very possible that he visited Audrey decades ago in the same way that he once visited Diane and that he got Ms. Horne pregnant, perhaps as part of his larger plot to blow past his term of service to his Black Lodge benefactors — by sacrificing someone else in his place.
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To the contrary, the Syrian Kurds were the greatest benefactors of our military excursion into Syria (along with, perversely, the Assad regime and the Iraqi government in Baghdad), as we effectively loaned the U.S. Air Force to the Kurds to level Raqqa and drive ISIS out of their cities and villages.
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They were major benefactors who helped finance the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (home to the Temple of Dendur), the Freer and Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, British cultural institutions, schools in Israel and scores of scientific, academic and cultural programs.
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Those figures underscore how difficult the terrain has become for House Republicans in the midterms that are now just three weeks away and how much the party is relying on major financial benefactors, such as Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, to remain competitive in the homestretch to Election Day.
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Endowed by the same benefactors that funded the original Cranbrook Educational Community (now encompassing Cranbrook Schools, Art Academy, Art Museum, Institute of Science, and Cranbrook House and Gardens), George and Ellen Booth, Christ Church houses selections from their expansive art collection that consider religious themes, as well as commissions for the space.
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Club records at the office of Muhammed Noor, one of the team's co-founders and chief benefactors—and the CEO and founder of Rvision, the world's only Rohingya news network—show that the team previously amassed a record of 28-3, mostly in unofficial matches against smaller Rohingya teams in other Malaysian states.
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With his famous name and war chest of over $100m, whistled up from Bush family benefactors in a matter of months, the former Florida governor was almost as strong a favourite for the Republican ticket as Hillary Clinton, who had made her inaugural campaign speech two days earlier, was for the Democratic one.
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Her adventurous sensibility can be felt in a number of big public collections around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she helped sculpt the founding collections by advising the benefactors who donated them.
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" Cable industry leaders lashed out at Mr. Obama, arguing that he was rewarding political friends and benefactors like those at Google, and undermining the independence of the F.C.C. Jim Cicconi, a senior executive vice president at AT&T, said the president's move was "aimed at muscling Democratic commissioners to support the Google proposal.
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But they are likely to stick to a long-standing line that ultra-easy policy is working as intended, and that banks remain net benefactors of record low rates so there is no acute need to compensate them for the hefty fee they pay to park their excess cash at the ECB.
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A cynic might suggest that at least Obama took the Wall Street money and rewarded his financial benefactors with relatively weak Wall Street regulations and little punishment for Wall Street misdeeds, while his successor criticized Wall Street money and then named the kind of Wall Street execs he criticized to his cabinet.
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Charles Wallace pretty quickly introduces Meg to a trio of magical benefactors -- played by Winfrey, a sprightly Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling -- who have come to recruit warriors, looking to repel The It, a shadowy evil that as described sounds like a close cousin of "Star Wars'" Dark Side of the Force.
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Well-heeled benefactors, there for The Glass House's 10th Anniversary Summer Party, scramble to move out of the way (or edge close enough to snap a shareworthy photo) as choreographer Jonah Bokaer's somber-faced dancers invade the patch of lawn on which they've just been sipping champagne and enjoying a fancy fried chicken picnic.
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While some think Thiel is right to stick it to an outlet that at times seemed to rely on tormenting him to meet its traffic targets, others — including reporters and First Amendment specialists — expressed concern today that Thiel and other wealthy benefactors could effectively silence journalists and other critics by funding lawsuits against them.
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Unless Mr. Trump can win over more benefactors, he is likely to become the first Republican presidential nominee in decades to be heavily outspent by his Democratic opponent, and may find it difficult to pay for both the voter-turnout operations and the paid advertising campaigns that are typically required in a general election.
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In a remarkable rebuke to one of the world's most prominent philanthropic dynasties, the prestigious Tate museums in London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, where a Sackler sat on the board for many years, decided in the last week that they would no longer accept gifts from their longtime Sackler benefactors.
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Mr. Matzneff was represented in court by his longtime lawyer and supporter, Emmanuel Pierrat, who is also president of the PEN Club in France, a writers' association, and the secretary general of a museum in Paris devoted to the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who died in 2008 and was one of Mr. Matzneff's benefactors.
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City has had a little chaos in its time too, of course — the firings of Mark Hughes and Roberto Mancini, the existence of Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli — and its prominence was hard-won, just a little slower than many might have expected given the riches injected into the club by its Emirati benefactors.
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Using Cleveland as a staging ground for out-of-town artists rings alarmingly close to the kind of 'blank canvas' mentality that is all too familiar to long-suffering denizens of Rust Belt cities experiencing redevelopment efforts driven by wealthy benefactors concerned with generating outside interest rather than addressing longstanding, often racialized, systemic inequities.
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While leading figures of the alt-right (and alt-lite) have access to wealthy benefactors like the Mercer family, the income streams of the movement's B-listers are remarkably similar to anyone else trying to make a living online: donations made by fans through payment processors like PayPal or monthly checks from crowdfunding platforms like Patreon.
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Rubio's people believe that even if the two anti-establishment candidates win the first four contests (in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada), neither of them will be able to coax the party's benefactors into coalescing around them as Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney were able to do after their early victories.
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AT&T's existing LTE network is more commonly used for cellphones than drones The company picks out the agriculture, construction, insurance, and delivery industries as being particular benefactors from the technology, possibly allowing pilots in a central office to guide fleets of UAVs around the skies miles from their location as the US military does with Predator drones.
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Do Republican senators believe it is good politics to force-feed an unpopular tax bill negotiated in secret late-night talks, behind closed doors, on very short notice, by members of only one party, colluding with their lobbyist benefactors, on a tax cut for the rich, passed after banana republic procedures, by a swampland of the Senate?
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This is great news for the hardworking teachers of America who deserve to be compensated and respected as the professionals they are, and for students, who will ultimately be the greatest benefactors of the innovative and proven educational reforms that have the potential to transform our antiquated school system into a 21st-century, world-class education model.
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He admits that he felt much closer to what he calls his "white family" — the caring grown-ups who mentored him in high school; the seasoned journalists who gave him career advice; the generous benefactors who offered him material support — than to the blood relatives who made extraordinary sacrifices in order to bring him to the United States.
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Last week, Sarah Shannon, the chief operating officer of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, a donor-advised fund that works to fight poverty in Brooklyn, received calls from three of her biggest benefactors, each saying that their accountants told them to hold off making contributions until next year, when more could be understood about the implications of the tax law.
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Even amid a progressive resurgence that has made it less politically palatable for Democrats to accept money from corporate PACs or lobbyists, billionaires like Bloomberg -- who has given prodigiously to an assortment of liberal causes, most notably in forming his gun control organization -- have largely avoided the scorn directed at conservative benefactors like the Koch Brothers.
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" Queried on the power of museum donors, a group he has unflinchingly confronted in his art, he replied merely that he "suspects" — and in person, Mr. Haacke never does more than "suspect"— that the power of art to affect viewers' thinking leaves museum benefactors with "an interest in what is being shown there, and what is not going to be shown there.
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The Helm does not require its companies to make a social impact in their business, but Wood, who has spent a decade advising family offices and high-net worth benefactors, said she had grown "incredibly disenchanted with philanthropy" and thought supporting women entrepreneurs was a good business — even if it meant putting restrictions on what kinds of companies to fund.
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Well, it's a show about Rodrigo, a mercurial and egomaniacal maestro played by Gael Garcia Bernal (who also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, a surprising upset for Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor), coming to take over as the conductor of a New York-based orchestra that desperately needs an infusion of something so that benefactors and audiences will take notice.
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Yet they are only the tip of the magnificent iceberg of some 850 pieces from the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. Assembled over nearly three decades, the collection was given to the Fenimore by the Thaws, benefactors of several New York institutions, especially the Morgan Library & Museum, which opens an exhibition of old master and Modern drawings from its Thaw Collection this month.
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