Among contributors that gave the limit of $250,000 were Marriott International and two subsidiaries.
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In previous years, the donor elite was Team 100, a group of $100,000 contributors that began in 1988 to help elect President George Bush.
Reports surfaced about his relationship with campaign contributors that showed Mr. Hevesi might be lax about avoiding the appearance of conflicts of interest.
"Manchester reinvented itself," says United fan and film director Danny Boyle, one of a string of non-footballing contributors that includes Tony Blair and Stone Roses bassist Mani.
There were e-mail lists, reporters' telephone numbers and lists of volunteers and contributors that were compiled then that were all ready to go.
Also founded in the 1990s, RCDB, like the other databases, started as a personal obsession and found a community of contributors that kept the site growing in content and traffic.
The Democratic "super PAC" backing President Obama raised $10 million in August, as donors gave a record amount to the group amid growing concern among some elite Democratic contributors that Republican outside groups will swamp Mr. Obama's re-election effort.
Table 2 shows major contributors that provide literature-extracted bioactivity data.
In doing so, we refer to the contributors that provide high volumes of contributions as highly active and label the contributors that provide highly valued contributions as expert contributors.
Using provincial level data, key contributors that help explain the level of energy intensity across China are found.
