Even under these rules, it would have been a stretch for the U.S. to meet its Paris "contribution"; without them, meeting the contribution has become, for all intents and purposes, impossible.
His contribution has become even more crucial because guard Hollis Price, the Sooners' leading scorer and the Big 12 player of the year, has been limited by a groin strain.
Britain, which allows access to many benefits based on need rather than on prior contributions, has become Europe's most popular destination for migrants.
Richard Gowan at the New York-based Centre on International Co-operation, says, "What the UN really fears is a situation where they solely rely on really low-end militaries".Sorting out troop contributions has become urgent.
The permissibility of soft money contributions has become a loophole in the Watergate-era laws, a loophole many say is so massive as to overwhelm the basic rule.
The Medicine Baba is performing a valuable service, say doctors who work at charitable clinics, and his contributions have become a formal part of their clinics' operations.
Yet no one sees any chance of major change by Congress because large contributions have become essential to winning, and the PAC's are providing it.
Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, which advocates a ban on corporate political contributions, said, "The institutionalization of having the president's principal fund-raiser at the Commerce Department demonstrates how deeply rooted corrupting soft money contributions have become in Washington".
In most cases, however, the attempt to generate a distinct fund has failed, and "contributions" have become just another tax with expenditures on, for example, retirement pensions paid irrespective of the resources available to the fund.
The scale of the donations and the amount of business that their firms received — plus a few allegations of extortion — suggested that campaign contributions had become the price of doing business with the state.
A. In a year with a devastating earthquake in Haiti and an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, specialized pleas for contributions have become mixed in with standing requests for donations.
