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).
A few firms already have: Eskom, for example, has contributed $5m to developing a vaccine for AIDS.
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.
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.
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).
In other words, polarizing tactics that divide the opposition party, pitting pro-gay-rights Democrats against anti-gay-rights Democrats, for example, may have contributed to Bush's diminished support from independent voters.
For example, geochemists have contributed to our knowledge of the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, the effect of human activity on global systems, the role of microorganisms in the environment, the origin and evolution of life, and the processes that have shaped the surface of Mars.
Lastly, as sexual behaviour data were not available we were unable to adjust for any change in sexual risk behaviour – a decline for example could have contributed to decreasing trends observed.
Chelsea Clinton, the child actor Fred Savage, the golfer Michelle Wie and the actress Reese Witherspoon are other examples who have contributed to Stanford's good name as a sanctuary for the well known and the accomplished.
The unfortunate choice of examples might have contributed to the misinterpretation of Schönfinkel's aims along the line that he attempted to provide a typefree framework for all of mathematics.
Secondly, we need a way to more exactly specify which parts of an example most probably have contributed to errors in the final decision.
