IN ONE of the largest donations of its kind in Britain, Manchester University last week received £15m ($24m) from Lord Alliance of Manchester and his family foundation.
Although the United States responded with large donations of food in January, Ethiopian officials particularly criticized the European Union for not making a concrete pledge.
India's governing Congress Party received the largest donations of any political party in the last seven years, and donations to the party's primary opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, were less than half of Congress's.
During this period, Khalifa established a rattan-furniture export business in Manila and is believed to have received large donations of cash from outside the country, some of which, intelligence officials suspect, may have been funnelled to him by Al Qaeda.
"Actually, I had it in my living room," he said, adding that he had given large donations of his own money to maintain Mussolini's grave in northern Italy.
A1 HOUSE & HOME F1-14 EDUCAtoON Big Bequest to Furman An eccentric, reclusive textile magnate, John D. Hollingsworth, who died at age 83 last week, bequeathed nearly half his estate to Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in one of the largest donations of its kind.
Passed by Congress this spring, the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law is intended to eliminate the large donations of soft money, often in checks of $100,000 or more, which have become common in recent years.
JERUSALEM — The International Monetary Fund is preparing a report on the Palestinian economy that praises the actions of the West Bank government and the large donations of Western countries, especially European ones, but argues that healthy recent growth rates are imperiled by the parties that claim to have the most at stake — Israel and the Arab states.
August 22, 1913 New York City, New York May 26 , 1987New York City, New York Arthur M. Sackler, in full Arthur Mitchell Sackler (born Aug. 22, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S. died May 26 , 1987 New York), American physician, medical publisher, and art collector who made large donations of money and art to universities and museums.
This high-achieving quartet gets the bulk of its gifts in large donations of material from corporations and pays its top officials relatively little.
