• The party Thursday was less of a fund-raiser and "more of a friend-raiser, " said Ms. York Dees, the older sister who also works as an event planner.

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  • Going to a Buddhist temple for a fund-raiser and not saying it is a fund-raiser is not my view of responsibility.

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  • As for the Junior Hurling, it was "a curtain-raiser because it was agreed there would be a curtain-raiser".

    BBC: Own goal for Ulster Council

  • The tax was put into place not so much as a revenue raiser but as a proper sin tax.

    FORBES: New Taxes Boost Cost of Nutella As French Take Measures to Avoid Getting Fat

  • In his Santa Barbara speech, Clinton did not mention Democratic contributions from an Indonesian banking family, fund-raiser John Huang, or a Democratic fund-raiser at a tax-exempt Buddhist temple in Southern California.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Money Troubles

  • Vice President Al Gore attended a fund-raiser at a California temple.

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  • Goldman Sachs showed a typical tin ear by withdrawing its sponsorship of a fund-raiser for a credit union (financial co-operative) on November 3rd because it planned to honour Occupy Wall Street.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • But he charged that what he views as Gore's lapses in the campaign finance department -- his attendance at a fund-raiser at a California Buddhist temple and declaration that there was "no controlling legal authority" to judge whether fund-raising calls he made from the White House were proper -- -- indicated something was rotten in the Clinton-Gore White House.

    CNN: Bush, Gore spin debate their way as campaigning resumes

  • "While the Chamber applauds extension of AMT relief, it strongly opposes raising taxes to fund relief from a tax that was never intended as a revenue raiser, " the business group's top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, said in a letter sent to member of the House of Representatives Wednesday, in reference to the bill that would temporarily curb the tax.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Haggis had met Cruise at a fund-raiser and, a second time, at the Celebrity Centre.

    NEWYORKER: The Apostate

  • The new limits were put into the Affordable Health Care Act as a revenue raiser.

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  • The Bush Administration included a ban on SILOs as a revenue raiser in its 2005 budget proposal released last month.

    FORBES: Will SILOs Collapse?

  • Although Democrats hit Dole hard for holding a fund raiser with former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Bowles was also vulnerable on corporate-responsibility issues.

    CNN: Dole projected to win North Carolina Senate seat

  • Other subpoenas issued by the Senate committee including those for bank records to track DNC donations raised at a controversial fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple in California last spring.

    CNN: Jump-Starting Finance Reform

  • Enacting a certain tax law is a revenue raiser.

    FORBES: Take Your Chances

  • Repealing the tax law is also a revenue raiser.

    FORBES: Take Your Chances

  • The curious accounting Congress uses for tax projections counts the Roth liberalization as a revenue raiser, even though it loses money in the long run, because the loss years lie over the horizon.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Hillary's next stop was the Grand Hyatt ballroom, where she was the star attraction at a fund raiser for Congresswoman Nita Lowey, who patiently waits in the wings to run if the queen doesn't.

    CNN: Uh-oh, the real first lady shows up

  • The free concert on Thursday, which also acts as a curtain raiser to the new football season in the US, will see the band playing in Times Square and Giants' Stadium in New York.

    BBC: Bon Jovi to pay tribute to New York

  • While the presidential motorcade was en route to a second fund-raiser, a small group of protesters could be seen holding up signs which read, "Please Teach Us English" in protest over California's Proposition 227.

    CNN: Clintons Raise Money For Their Party

  • Another reason to do a GRAT now, Rico points out, is that legislation cracking down on GRATs has been surfacing all year in various bills as a revenue raiser, and is likely to make it into law.

    FORBES: October Opportunity for GRATs and Family Loans

  • His shifting stories about whether he knew it was a fund raiser were followed by the disclosure two weeks ago that his office had been warned by the National Security Council to exercise "great, great caution" toward the proposed visit.

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  • At least there's no danger of that happening this time - this tournament has been scheduled correctly, it is a curtain raiser to the Test matches and the team that comes out on top will carry valuable momentum with them into the winter's main event.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • As a revenue raiser.

    FORBES: Take Your Chances

  • The couple separated in 2011, and she soon met Arnault, now the CEO of Berluti, at a fund-raiser for her charity at the designer Valentino's estate outside Paris, and began a new chapter.

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  • With preparations in hand to turn the forthcoming party congress into a curtain-raiser for the new Jiang-Li era, nothing would give the Chinese leaders greater satisfaction than a full and abject official apology from Mr Hashimoto for Japan's militaristic past.

    ECONOMIST: Japan��s war with China, revisited

  • Not long ago, I spoke with Mallory Factor, a Republican fund-raiser and the co-organizer of a monthly meeting for conservative thinkers and activists in New York.

    NEWYORKER: On the Bus

  • Lastly, a proven revenue raiser, albeit one you can't find in the federal budget, is inflation.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The fixture will be a curtain-raiser to New Zealand's own Four Nations warm-up Test against Samoa.

    BBC: England set to play NZ Maori ahead of Four Nations

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