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HISD gifts: Rockets tickets, phones, fishing trip
The gifts and offers to Houston ISD employees flowed: fishing on a luxury yacht, tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones. Technology vendors vying for business in the Houston Independent School District peppered staff, including former Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, with perks over several years, according to a federal investigation.
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Gifts from above: The Lake Elmo Inn's tradition of exchanging a drink for an ornament
The Lake Elmo Inn's Christmas trees begin every year naked. The lonely twinkle lights that adorn their bare branches do little to help them stand out against the holiday decorations that will embellish the remainder of the restaurant once the season begins.
stillwatergazette.com
3 Ways to Promote Planned Gifts
How you promote planned gifts is just as important as identifying and cultivating people who want to make a charitable bequest in their wills. The result can be extraordinary, as The Nature Conservancy , the big environmental group in Arlington, Va., has learned.
philanthropy.com
Clark's Hallmark Reader's Choice to buy gifts
Readers choose Clarks Hallmark as best place to buy gifts
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Gifts cost Houston schools funding
HOUSTON (AP) Technology vendors bidding for business with the Houston school district gave free tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones and a fishing trip on a yacht to district employees, a law firm hired by the district has found.
lubbockonline.com
Artwork shares program participants Creative Gifts
With strips of tape and layers of acrylic paint, individuals in Peaceful Livings Creative Gifts program produce masterpieces.
www.montgomerynews.com
Housewarming gifts
FLOOD-HIT Cockermouth residents who have moved back into refurbished properties have been given a £50 housewarming present from the towns Round Table.
www.timesandstar.co.uk
Gal pal of generous Viacom boss says she got nothing
Viacom Inc executive chairman Sumner Redstone's news-making gifts to young women are proving irksome to his longtime lady friend, Christine Peters.
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W&M raises $43 million in private giving
Private gifts from alumni, parents and friends exceeded $43 million for fiscal year 2010, which ended on June 30.
vagazette.com
What gifts to bring to a nation that makes everything?
When Chinese Americans visit family and friends in their homeland, gifts from the U.S. are a must. But TVs and fashionable clothes aren't rare anymore, and anything 'Made in China' won't do. George Bao felt like a rich man the first time he flew back to China from America.
www.latimes.com
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