IF Alex Nyerges, the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, has an extra spring in his step lately, it may have something to do with the $70 million gift the museum is receiving from a trust created long ago: $60 million of it was designated for the museum's endowment for art purchases, pushing that total to more than $156 million.
In 1983 it was designated for cleanup as one of the nation's federal Superfund sites, and from then on it seemed mired in a bureaucratic morass of delays, budget shortfalls and constantly shifting cleanup plans.
Delta reinstated a feature called "last seat," which allows a frequent flier to book any remaining seat on a plane, whether or not it is designated for a member of its mileage program.
Almost all of it was designated for the police, fire departments, hospitals and ambulances, rather than the nation's gas pumps.
But Russia is unlikely to lose the 2018 World Cup and England could not host the 2022 tournament because it was designated for a non-European country.
Long a sore spot in a town with astronomical commercial rentals, grad-student options have been getting better and that will continue, but for heaven's sake, the Butler tract housing for married students that was built as a temporary wartime solution 70 years ago is still going strong (it is designated for demolition, but not for the first time).
The governor's campaign, which stopped raising money after he ended his bid, also returned money to some donors who had given above the maximum $37,800 allowed per person in a general election campaign, since it was designated for a primary that never took place.
There are larger amounts of money going to agencies without it being designated for specific projects".
Curiously (a word I will use throughout this post) the hard-copy teacher guide does not identify a grade level, but online it is designated for 5th grade.
