A number of entertainment figures have been active in the campaign and have contributed the $2,000 maximum.
Jupiter-origin comets, Dr. Mumma said, "should have contributed the lion's share of mass that impacted Earth in early history".
If Sunbeam had not filed under Chapter 11, the company "would have contributed the greatest amount of a settlement," Mr. Kornreich said.
Good Works Celebrated artists have contributed the works for a silent auction being conducted through Saturday for the benefit of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
In hindsight, while this may have contributed, the crux of the matter was that I had become so ingrained in the organisation, I was choking it.
Mr. Gore, Mr. Blood and four other founding partners have contributed the fund's start-up capital, and it will begin managing money in early 2005.
G.M. could have contributed the $7 billion in cash, but by using its Hughes interest instead, the company keeps that capital handy for other possible deals, including acquisitions.
Three factors have contributed: the increase in households with no one in work, growing wage inequality and the rise of single-parent homes.
In recent years, these cash transfers have contributed the equivalent of about 30% of Kyrgyzstan's economy and about 50% of Tajikistan's.
G.M. is understood to have contributed the basic design of the new 9-speed for front-drive vehicles, while the 10-speed's design comes from Ford.
Italian-Americans from South Philadelphia and German-Americans who settled in and west of the city, misleadingly known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, have contributed the most to making Philadelphia a street-food showcase, a kind of Middle Atlantic Singapore.
