A former senior official at the Research Foundation for the State University of New York used his foundation credit card to pay for nearly $131,000 in hockey tickets, iPhones, Godiva chocolates, groceries and other personal expenses, according to an audit released on Monday.
"With this transition, and this change in administration, it's important to us that whoever is coming is in active dialogue with the small-business community," said Edwin Torres, an associate director at the foundation who credited the Bloomberg administration with doing a "very good job" in the areas of small-business initiatives and job-training opportunities for poor and vulnerable New Yorkers.
Mark Murphy, executive director of the foundation, who credited Mr. Diner with the vision for the center, said, "There is a critical role to be played by an independent, credible, fact-based analysis of social issues and policy options" that urban decision makers face.
In a 2014 report, the World Health Organization credited the foundation's health arm, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, which is now a separate, but affiliated, entity, with helping to bring down the cost of AIDS drugs in poor countries.
Without her and her followers, Mr. Critchlow said, the conservative intellectuals, research organizations and foundations that are often credited with reshaping the contours of American politics might have failed.
Prince Buster is also widely credited as the foundation of ska's revival in the late 70s and early 80s – the so-called Two Tone movement.
The first application of cathodic protection dates back to 1824, long before its theoretical foundation was established, and is credited to Sir Humphrey Davy [69].
Cristiolus is also credited with the foundation of the church in Eglwyswrw in modern-day Pembrokeshire, south Wales.
Lakshminarasu Chetty is also credited with the foundation of the Madras Presidency Association which was a forerunner of the Indian National Congress.
Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry.
Many individuals have threatened legal action against the banks after Guardian Money's Richard Colbey, a barrister, first exposed in October 2004 that the legal foundation for credit card penalties was built on sand.
