But Alan Bold, the director of the V&A, says, "I rather think that donor fatigue is setting in .That may not matter if the demand for extensions and new museums is set to calm down after the recent flurry.
He has shown little inclination to compromise with Republicans over his demand for further extension of the payroll-tax holiday.
Long sought for wigs and toupees, human hair is now in particularly high demand for hair extension procedures in more affluent countries.
Republicans on Capitol Hill were showing signs of division over whether to go along with Mr. Obama's demand for an extension of the payroll tax deduction.
Natasha Moraes de Andrade - nicknamed "Rapunzel" - from one of Rio's many favelas or shanty towns, is hoping to cash-in on the demand for luscious extensions.
Only a year ago, Mr. Obama acceded to Republican demands for an extension of all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts, including those for wealthy Americans.
An internal dispute over the troika's demands for the extension of the tax had shaken the fragile coalition government in Greece.
In those talks, Ms. Pelosi dropped Democrats' demands for an extension in unemployment benefits and an increase in food stamps, two strategies that economists rate highly for providing a quick stimulative effect, and instead agreed to a plan centered on the tax rebates favored by House Republicans and the Bush administration.
At the White House, administration officials outlined a list of their demands for an extension of expiring tax breaks, including the $800-per-couple "Making Work Pay" tax credit for about 110 million households, a tuition tax credit for 8 million college students, and the earned-income tax credit and child tax credit for 15 million low-income families.
Democrats voted for the deal, but had to give up their demands for an extension of emergency unemployment benefits that expire for 1.3 million people on Dec. 28.
