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As evidence of the secretary's fund-raising prowess, administration officials said she had secured $10 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a pledge of about $500,000 from H&R Block, the tax preparation service.

Countries are together expected to offer around $10bn to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday, with the UK becoming one of the world's largest contributors with an expected pledge of about $1bn.

(On Friday, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, campaigning to return to office, made a new promise: he said that if he won, he would personally refund an unpopular property tax paid by Italians in 2012. "I will take four billion euros of my own fortune and give it to Italians," he said on television, a pledge of about $5.3 billion).

That figure includes a pledge of about $7 million by the city toward the cost of police and transportation for the delegates, but officials say that plan, apparently based on what was needed in 1996 in Chicago, will now be more costly, given the geographic sprawl of Los Angeles.

Mr. DiPascali's failed bail attempt came despite a new proposal presented by defense lawyers and prosecutors that included a $10 million bond, co-signed by nine people, including members of the DiPascali family, and the pledge of about $2 million in personal property.

The new bail package proposed by the government includes a $10 million bond, co-signed by nine people, including members of the DiPascali family, and the pledge of about $2 million in personal property, including three family-owned properties, his sister's retirement savings and $1 million in retirement savings pledged by a nonfamily member.

Unesco's director general, Irina Bokova, has secured pledges of about $70 million since December to try to make up for the roughly $144 million in dues that the United States has withheld, she said in an interview here.

In addition to providing the donation spreadsheets to the agency, Sanders signed a document saying that the college "expects to receive pledged amounts" of about $2.27 million, records show.

She has 3.2 million more votes than you and a lead in pledged delegates of about 325.

His office had earlier pledged cash payments of about $860 to every Christian family that returned to Mosul.

That project has received federal pledges of about $3 billion, though the cost has been estimated to be at least $43 billion.