Parton pledges &#36;500,000 to hospital
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Honoring the country doctor who delivered her, Dolly Parton pledged $500,000 to a $90 million hospital and cancer center in her Smoky Mountains hometown.
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Germany on Wednesday became the single largest donor to victims of the tsunami catastrophe in Asia by pledging 500 million to be paid out over the next three to five years.
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Â· Clinton's rival raises record breaking $32m in a monthÂ· Schwarzenegger endorses Republican frontrunner
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CHRIS CLARK: There&#39;s no end in sight to the soaring tally of health funding promises in the election campaign. In the latest, Mark Latham has come up with a $1 billion dollar parcel for hospitals, and the signs are there&#39;s more to come.
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The NBA players' union has decided to donate &#36;500,000 to help victims of last month's Indian Ocean tsunami, and the NBA will match the gift, a league spokesman said Friday.
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A three-day auction of items owned by the late Johnny and June Carter Cash raised nearly &#36;4 million, more than twice the amount expected, as over 1,000 bidders snapped up property from the country music icons.
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The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday that he is pushing for an additional $50 billion over five years for a health care program that insures millions of children.
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The federal government will pay &#36;4.2 billion into a program to help Louisiana residents rebuild or sell houses severely damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said Tuesday.
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World donors pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians on Friday, including $55 million for a U.N. emergency appeal for humanitarian help, organizers said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - First ministers were expected Wednesday to complete an agreement that would pump an additional &#36;18 billion into medicare over six years.
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Actor Mel Gibson has donated &#36;10 million that will be split between Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and the Cedars-Sinal Medical Center to help care for children from foreign countries, officials said Tuesday.
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The nation's fourth-largest bank plans to shore up $3.5 billion
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$500 million goes into the buyback kitty.
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President Bush signed legislation Thursday authorizing &#36;300 million to help victims of violence and support peace talks in Sudan.
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The president today asked Congress for $500 million to help Mexico combat the narcotics trade.
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US Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record US$11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise US$36, the biggest increase in 14 years, reported Monday&#39;s China Daily.
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates has contributed $400,000 to the campaign to support a California initiative that would provide the state with nearly $3 billion in funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports (Elias, AP