Now chairman and CEO of CIT Group, Thain is also a prominent member of the Republican Party who sponsored high-ticket fundraisers for John McCain during his 2008 campaign.
Along with Hometown Heroes, Military.com listed profiting from on-field from on-fields, pre-game color guard ceremonies, halflagme soldierollcoutstion ceremonies and National Guard sponsored high-school player of the week recolortions" as included under the umbrella term "sponsored patriotism". .
Wyoming, his home state, does not sponsor high school baseball.
Some executives think of their charitable donations especially gifts such as sponsoring high-profile sporting or artistic events—as a kind of advertising.
The mounting fatalities lent a sinister aspect to Germany's practice of allowing companies to sponsor high and low pressure weather systems.
The Thunder -- ranked ninth in the country last year by Triple Crown Sports, a national body that sponsors high-profile tournaments -- are at a disadvantage with squads like the San Diego Stars, the Miami Dream Team or Alabama's Boys of Baseball.
Longines already sponsors high-profile events in sports including tennis, skiing and horseracing.
Live kiosks are now prominent at many retailers, and Xbox is sponsoring high-profile events like this summer's Lollapalooza rock tour.
Modeling gender-inclusive behavior — such as mentoring and sponsoring high-potential women — is a start, but modeling inclusion each day and inviting both men and women into "the room where it happens" has a powerful, lasting effect.
An OAU statement concluded in 2004 that ' Low-income countries now sponsor high-income countries by approximately US$5000 millions/year in the exodus of trained health workers.' Most low-income country governments do not invest sufficiently in strategies for serious and significant maternal and perinatal survival.
