fund
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Lawyers for Levon Helm Studios contend that Amy used money from the company to fund her lifestyle and personal music career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The utility hasn’t specified how it plans to fund such a ramp up of projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
She does this by contributing a little bit of money every month into a "sinking fund" - a pot of money set aside for a specific purpose.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Others joked that you could “simply sell the coin flip to a hedge fund for $400,000.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
After years of working solo, she had convinced the Treasury Department to fund a larger unit.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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As a Shanghai official in the early 2010s, he helped design a pilot program allowing foreign private-equity firms to raise yuan-denominated funds in the city—an early and closely watched experiment in internationalizing China’s currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"When you have the funds, there's no pressure," he tells me.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s not just the way theater tells — and funds — stories that must evolve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Both Wisdom Tree and Amplify were willing to talk to me about their experiences so far running these funds.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Calling on his Washington connections, Galifianakis brought a congressional committee staffer to town to investigate the possible abuse of federal funds.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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If funded entirely through increases in water rates, an estimated 30.4 million households would spend more than 2.5% of their income on drinking water, according to the report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
It said this would cost £850m in 2026-27 - to be funded by scrapping the previous government's digital ID scheme, which had been estimated to cost £1.8bn over the next three years.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Disclosure: Amazon, Apple and Common Cause have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Public First says it is a counterweight to the other major AI spender, Leading the Future, which is funded by tech titans including a top executive at OpenAI and venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rutherford had relocated to Montreal and a professorship at McGill University, which featured a lavishly equipped laboratory funded by a Canadian businessman, in an early example of scientific patronage by industry.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t concealing his disinterest in what the House is offering, saying that he wants to focus on government funding instead.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
Boring was valued at around $5.7 billion after a 2022 funding round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Office of Management and Budget sent the supplemental funding request to Congress asking for $87.6 billion — largely to fund Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Speaking on Thursday, she urged him to tackle high energy costs for businesses as well as a gap in defence funding.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This is the kind of thing people in Jankburg make fun of, the kind of flamboyant stuff that got the arts funding all but cut from my school in the first place.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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