Sentences with phrase «billionaire benefactors»
Voters were not swayed by outsiders and their millions... The public wants Board members who will listen to the community — not be beholden to their billionaire benefactors.
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Democratic state Executive Director Jim Rogers claimed, «Fischer wishes to hide that she signed the Grover Norquist (no tax increase) pledge to protect the tax breaks of her billionaire benefactors like Joe Ricketts and the Koch brothers and she stands against the middle class and favors tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.»
He is at LEAST as popular as Conor if not more, and has billionaire benefactors and ties to Putin himself.
A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
A little - known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey.
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From the perspective of the benefactor, be it a government agency or a billionaire's foundation, a back - end payoff is extremely efficient, but skeptics call that myopic.
«The mystery - solving teens are best friends but have only met online — until Daphne transfers to Velma's school, Ridge Valley High, stocked with high - tech gadgetry by the school's benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom.
Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor of New York City.
Described as «the quiet billionaire» (P. Sabatini, «Henry Hillman: Billionaire financier avoided spotlight but was one of the city's most generous benefactors,» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2017, via http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/04/14/Philanthropist-Henry-Hillman-dies/stories/201704140181, [accessed 1/12/2018]-RRB-, Hillman became a supporter of many high profile projects including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, in addition to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library and the Hillman Center for Future - Generation Technologies at Carnegie Mellon billionaire» (P. Sabatini, «Henry Hillman: Billionaire financier avoided spotlight but was one of the city's most generous benefactors,» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2017, via http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/04/14/Philanthropist-Henry-Hillman-dies/stories/201704140181, [accessed 1/12/2018]-RRB-, Hillman became a supporter of many high profile projects including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, in addition to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library and the Hillman Center for Future - Generation Technologies at Carnegie Mellon Billionaire financier avoided spotlight but was one of the city's most generous benefactors,» Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2017, via http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/04/14/Philanthropist-Henry-Hillman-dies/stories/201704140181, [accessed 1/12/2018]-RRB-, Hillman became a supporter of many high profile projects including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, in addition to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Hillman Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library and the Hillman Center for Future - Generation Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Since authoring the report, Stern has shot to climate stardom, being sought by carbon finance firms, keen to cash in on his connections to government and his insider policy - making knowledge, by the media, and by billionaire philanthropists wishing to have him set up and manage climate research organisations that bear the benefactors» names.
The billionaire Jeremy Grantham — who has around $ 1.5 billion worth of stock in oil companies — is the benefactor of the influential Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change, headed by Lord Nicholas Stern, who wrote The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
All told, the Cruz campaign paid the company, which is reportedly owned by New York City hedgefund billionaire Robert Mercer, one of Cruz's most generous benefactors, over $ 6.7 million.
Robert Mercer, a hedge fund billionaire and one of President Donald Trump's top benefactors, has donated $ 300,000 to a super PAC charged with defeating Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, an outspoken Trump critic, in the 2018 midterm election, Politico reported Wednesday.