Its two high street stores have helped fund work which includes support for elderly people living in poverty, emergency grants, welfare rights advice and a hospital after-care service.

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He says things are going so swimmingly now that Whole Foods can, all at the same time, add stores, increase its dividend, fund stock buybacks and pile up cash.

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One recent fund raising campaign sent parents to local stores for donations to a silent auction and many local businesses freely donated gifts and services but others wanted a receipt.

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Missing from the document: what percentage of the hotel company the Pritzkers and its co-owners (Goldman and Madrone Capital Partners, a fund affiliated with the chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, together own 13% of the company) were planning to sell.

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Prosecutors allege that she engaged in "systematic embezzlement", using union money to fund a lavish lifestyle including accounts in high-end department stores in the United States and two mansions in San Diego.

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Marks and Spencer has committed to becoming one of the anchor stores at the site and a council spokeswoman said Monday's Regional Growth Fund announcement should give other retailers confidence in the scheme.

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