Dr. Scaife also impressed the National Science Foundation and the Dreyfus Foundation, which, with other contributors, helped pay for his mission.
Mr. Starr called the contributors' help "a rush of generosity" and asked why the money had been given.
Mr. Gates, Mr. Allen and others became big contributors, helping the university build a new home for its computer science program.
The solid experience of longtime staff and the fresh perspectives of newer contributors help the Graduate Division to adapt and innovate continually with changing times.
She also had meetings later that week to discuss advertising and marketing of the Broadway revivals of "Jumpers" and "A Raisin in the Sun," two plays whose current incarnations she (along with many other contributors) helped finance.
Mr. Obama has been raising money at a furious clip amid signs that he has been slow to reconnect with swathes of the vast network of high-dollar donors who, along with grassroots contributors, helped power his dollar haul during the 2008 campaign.
Writing from different regions of the world, addressing hidden corners of the industry, and describing the knowledge that is deployed to make oil extractable, profitable, and contestable, the contributors help the reader get a handle on the symbolic, political, material, and social complexity of the oil assemblage.
Contributors help in many ways to the shelter, including providing items the cats need, donating money, or attending fundraisers.
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In 2002, the Senate Ethics Committee declared that Mr. Torricelli was "severely admonished" for failing to report gifts from a contributor while helping the contributor's business through official acts.
