While I believe the American people have a strong streak of rugged individualism, I have also observed that, just like the big banks who ran to the Government for money when they were in trouble they themselves caused, the American people also want a strong social safety net, a foundation from which that rugged individualism can be expressed.
12 52 p.m. | Updated Charles Alcock, director of the astrophysics center, acknowledged that Dr. Soon's grants since 2003 had come from fossil-fuel energy companies or from foundations that receive money from the fossil fuel industry.
The project received financing from foundations that included the Taconic Foundation, the New World Foundation and the Field Foundation, with some encouragement from the Kennedy administration.
When the Arizona real estate market turned down more than a decade ago, it engaged in a series of questionable deals in which it "sold" real estate at inflated prices to entities that had obtained financing from the foundation and that were unlikely to be able to pay back the money borrowed unless the real estate market turned around.
He also came under fire from watchdogs for taking legal fees from a foundation that ran a halfway house whose state financing he had helped oversee.
To defend himself, Mr. Torres salvaged a computer hard drive from the foundation that contained more than 200 e-mails from the duke.
Mr. White, who guided the aircraft carrier Intrepid through financial troubles and a difficult departure from its berth on the West Side of Manhattan, resigned from the foundation that operates the museum and also left the two charities — the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and the Intrepid Relief Fund — that raise money to help wounded veterans and their families.
Now, I am able to go forward with my current love, free from the hold of the ghost,and build from a foundation that's pure.
At the time it was the biggest gift from a private foundation to that university.
The greatest risk of radon exposure arises in buildings that are airtight, insufficiently ventilated, and have foundation leaks that allow air from the soil into basements and dwelling rooms.
