Meanwhile, donors handily get round that limit by giving so called "soft", or unrestricted, money to parties for "party-building" activities, which often turn out to be closely connected to individuals running for office.In this section A bum rap in the Big Apple A cap on free speech?
Lifetime Television may have given so-called women's programming a bad name by concentrating on melodramatic movies about the disease, infidelity or personal crisis of the week, but Spike TV seems determined to be its male counterpart.
From 1991, they were given so-called temporary protected status, allowing them to remain in the United States.
These are funds given by generous alumni, parents, and friends of the university for use in the year in which they are given, so-called current use funds.
They are to provide their own helmets and flak jackets but will be given so-called NBC gear to protect against nuclear, biological and chemical attacks.
Landlords are also given so-called hardship allowances of $20 a month on apartments that lease for less than $400 a month.
In the actual trial, a key witness recalled participating in the conspiracy only after being given so-called "truth serum" and hypnotized.
These men typically do not have surgery to remove the prostate but instead are given so-called androgen-deprivation therapy to reduce levels of testosterone, a hormone that can fuel tumor growth.
Avastin was given so-called accelerated approval in early 2008, a way for the F.D.A. to approve drugs for life-threatening diseases based on less than complete evidence of effectiveness.
But Haitians who are not legal residents of the United States can qualify for Medicaid only if they are given so-called humanitarian parole — in which someone is allowed into the United States temporarily because of an emergency — by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
