The audience, appropriately, was Hurricane Katrina first responders, and the gift-giving was accompanied by tender stories of what audience members had done to help out in New Orleans.
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In 1843 the ABS sold the first-ever charitable gift annuity, a now-popular fundraising device in which a person makes a donation to a tax-exempt entity and gets back a specified annual return for life.
Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
One of the first requirements of a valid gift is donative intent.
Unelected he may be, but Mr Macdonald is far from being the first minister who has been brought into government by the gift of a life peerage: Margaret Thatcher followed just this route when she ennobled Lord Young and then employed the successful businessman in a variety of ministerial jobs.
Driven by the powerful "gift" she had first become aware of as a nine-year-old girl living in the lap of luxury, she chose to work as a nursery nurse and has worked with children ever since.
The club is about golf and generously donates the surplus it makes from television, ticket and gift shop sales to worthy organizations such as The First Tee, which uses golf to teach values to kids.
But the strongmen and sword swallowers who perform at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will be out of work until May 24, when owner Dick Zigun is able to open the first floor of the landmark building that houses it as well as a bar, gift shop and dressing room destroyed by Sandy.
Santana even left a precious parting gift before he went -the first no-hitter in franchise history.
Consider the foreign importer: No doubt that importer's relative wealth position is enhanced by the devaluationist "gift"--at first.
Consumers who have a problem returning a gift, should first contact the store manager or customer service department of the retailer.
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Ms. BRAZILE: Well, Joe, if it's a political issue, then it was a gift from the Republicans who, first of all, could have just handled this like any other professional, competent team.
The Shockers of Wichita State, a lively gift to the National Association of Easy Headline Writers, are in their first Final Four since 1965.
"It turned out to be the greatest gift, " says Gerson, a first-grade teacher who has just opened a yoga studio with a friend.
His biggest gift to the network: Clubhouse Confidential, the first baseball show dedicated to numbers and sabermetric analysis.
Ray Charles first discovered his gift for music when, at the age of three, his next-door neighbor taught him how to play the piano.
This was in the year 2000, and I thought that this was the best gift, a good way to begin my twenty-first-century American dream.
How is America coping with its first gift-giving season in nearly a decade without the illustrious hostess telling it what friends and family really want?
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Lady Liberty, a gift from France in 1886, was one of the first sights seen by millions of immigrants who arrived in New York harbour over the past two centuries, hoping to gain entry into America.
Among these are that being is a gift, and our proper response to being is in the first place one of receptivity and gratitude.
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England seemed keen to gift Croatia another goal as first Bridge cleared on to the top of his own crossbar and then Carson repaired some of the damage by brilliantly saving Olic's point-blank header.
This gift is particularly important in the context of the findings of the first comprehensive, congressionally mandated study ever conducted in the U.S. on a national level.
It actually first came out in October as a gift idea -- presumably for the guy who doesn't mind sleeping on the couch.
They were bombarded with orders from small toy and gift shops and landed their first big account with Tower Records, the now defunct music chain.
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Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the Executive would consider a proposal from Peter Robinson to make a gift to mark the event.
Ever since I first laid eyes on the young prodigy from Tasmania, it was apparent he had a rare gift with a cricket bat in his hand.
Whether the choice of payment is by debit or credit card, gift card, check or mobile phone, online or at the checkout counter, First Data takes every opportunity to go beyond the transaction.
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Using a platform developed by e-commerce and payment processing First Data in use by Cold Stone and other food service companies, the eGift takes the concept of the virtual gift and brings it back to reality.
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