If either had been outlawed I'd probably have drunk myself blind on cheap illegal moonshine or knifed you and your family in the eye to fund my cigarette habit.
In a jargon-filled footnote, liable to be either overlooked or misunderstood by the untrained eye, the fund does note that its results are calculated on a gross basis.
DECF: Daisy's eye cancer fund; UofT: University of Toronto; CIE Centerr for international experience; NGO: Non-governmental organization The authors declare no competing interests.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/11/250/prepub We acknowledge Patrick C.P. Ho and the Hong kong Eye Charity fund, Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau for providing financial support for this study.
Typical of the industry's arrogance was a statement last March by Paul G. Haaga Jr., chairman of the Investment Company Institute, in a press briefing on funds: "Under the S.E.C.'s watchful eye, mutual funds have remained free of major scandal for more than 60 years".
She took a class on ethology and started saving her concert earnings, with an eye toward funding the project.
"Isis could not have come about without the Gulf states turning a blind eye to funding," said Toby Matthiesen, a Gulf expert at the University of Cambridge.
Still, it is odd that Mr Qaddafi should want to poke Mr Museveni in the eye by funding riots, since the recent oil discoveries in Uganda should make its president more attractive as a friend.
But Arab sources claim the normally vigilant Saudis have turned a blind eye as funds raised by Syrian businessmen in the Gulf have been used to buy arms that have been smuggled into Syria by Saudi allies in Lebanon.
However, in order to treat the numerous patients with trachoma and other eye diseases, funding was required.
The eye-popping fund-raising figures are entirely from the grassroots, with no special-interest effects used.
