Local governmental institutions employed project coordinators and provided research funds to participating university researchers and companies.
The report was forwarded to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an American nonprofit that provided research grants.
Mr. Mays once worked at SHR, which provided research and other advice to Volkswagen regarding its New Beetle, the most successful halo car in recent years.
Kathryn and Alex met in 2004, when she provided research assistance for a new opera, with a Middle East focus, that he was developing.
"Each agency essentially has its own profile," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which provided research and financing for the survey.
But Leyla Habane, a Moroccan-French university student who provided research assistance when Ms. Doran was working on her dissertation, is leary of that interpretation.
Until August 2009, he was an account manager in New York at Vista Research, a division of Standard & Poor's, where he provided research to hedge funds.
Recipients include the chief executive, Richard S. Fuld Jr., and other top executives as well as Wall Street banks that provided research coverage on Lehman, like Merrill Lynch, and funds that invested in it.
From 1969 to 1984, Mr. Booth was associate director of the Twentieth Century Fund, now called the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that since 1919 has provided research on what it deems to be progressive public policy.
In some cases, the so-called research guarantee fees paid by Morgan Stanley to other firms exceeded the amount the other firm that provided research earned as part of the group selling the shares to the public.
Mrs. Johnson, 28, was employed until last month as a research manager with the Gerson Lehrman Group, an investment research firm in New York, where she provided research on technology, media and telecommunications industries to hedge funds and mutual funds.
