The group earmarked £20 million of the most recent funding on converting 60 of its most important stores in 2012 and 2013 into a new format which during trials produced much-improved sales and margins.
But, Mr. Woods added, his group had earmarked reports of about a dozen drone strikes as suspicious in recent years, and had marked them as such on its Web site.
Most mainstream development funding for sex worker groups is earmarked for HIV programmes, and while many organisations do work in this area, she's quick to stress their needs go beyond it.
Since few, if any, donors to these groups ever earmark their donation for a specific election expense there was no disclosure.
McCaw, a billionaire who will bankroll the challenge, added that any additional corporate money raised by his group would be earmarked for environmental efforts.
Celebrities have long been known to help draw attention to bills and causes, and so are eagerly sought by interest groups, especially at a time of dwindling resources and a trend against earmarking for special groups or causes.
However, he insists he will not resign, even though VW shares slump again and the group tells investors it is earmarking €6.5bn to deal with the fallout.
Mr. Magliocchetti was "Exhibit A of the pay-to-play atmosphere that surrounds the earmarks system," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a private advocacy group that has campaigned for changes in earmarking.
Federal election rules, though, require that when a group accepts a donation earmarked for an electioneering ad, the donor must be identified.
A group of care homes earmarked for possible closure by stricken Southern Cross Healthcare have been saved after the landlord said it would take them over and keep them open.
