"People give higher amounts if they know who they're giving to and what it is they are giving for," she said.
When two of Deborah's friends called Karen to begin planning a bridal shower they were giving for Deborah, they found that Karen had already done it all.
Some of those lobbyists say they are giving for the traditional reason -- access to a powerful senator who just might become president.
"Does that mean that they would test items they were given for fingerprints?
Interested parties had complained that the one-month advance notice they were given for the auction was too short and prevented them from getting adequate financing.
When Alfred B. Nobel created the prizes that bear his name, he decreed that they be given for work done in the preceding year.
Had the broadcasters managed to do so, they would have then vacated the extra spectrum they were given for the transition, averting the current situation.
A University of Washington pilot study of digital textbooks found that a quarter of students still bought print versions of e-textbooks that they were given for free.
To their surprise, Warneken and Rosati said, several chimps were able to perform the task, and two saved nearly every piece of raw food they were given for it to be cooked later.
They nominate something achingly highbrow that no one would want to read, or something brutally expensive they were given for free, or something out next spring that they have just read in proof.
