Harvard, for example, has contributed several million dollars each year to Boston and Cambridge, Mass., since the late 1960's.
A few firms already have: Eskom, for example, has contributed $5m to developing a vaccine for AIDS.
Fierce competition in the mobile-phone market, for example, has contributed to epic, long-lasting patent battles between companies such as Apple, Samsung, and Motorola.
The European Commission, for example, has contributed €4 million to UNICEF's nutrition interventions for the flood-affected populations in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab.
Employees of investment bank Goldman Sachs, for example, have contributed more than $570,000 to his campaign.
Executives from the company that distributes 5-Hour Energy, for example, have contributed more than $280,000 through related corporate entities in the last two years to political funds of attorneys general.
If Joe Kraus of Excite, for example, had contributed just $1,000 worth of stock to a senator right when the company went public in April 1996, three years later, even after some scary losses and plunges, that senator would have had $15,992 to spend on campaigning.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, individuals employed by Verizon and its predecessor company, Bell Atlantic, for example, have contributed $70,418 to Mr. Kerry since 1990, making him the third-largest federal recipient of the company's largesse, behind George W. Bush ($119,980) and Senator John McCain ($71,200).
The British, for example, have contributed 10,000 more soldiers to the multinational force than has Egypt, which has roughly the same population and which at first glance would seem to have far more at stake than Britain in forcing President Hussein to retreat.
Such examples have contributed to a widely held impression among health economists that direct methods tend to yield higher utilities (reflecting better reported health) for given health states than do indirect methods, irrespective of the type of direct or indirect method used (for example, time trade off versus standard gamble or EQ-5D versus SF-6D).
For example, he has contributed to adapting various simulation-optimization approaches for model calibration and parameter estimation in dynamic models (e.g., the method of simulated moments and indirect inference), improving systematic review techniques, and developing a novel method for aggregation of prior stochastic and heterogeneous statistical findings.
