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  • We called journalist friends and asked them how to conduct interviews; we called fund-raiser friends and asked them how to raise money; and most importantly, we called attorney and activist friends and asked them how on earth we could track down the then eighty-nine men and women who had been exonerated from death row.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • We called journalist friends and asked them how to conduct interviews; we called fund-raiser friends and asked them how to raise money; and most importantly, we called attorney and activist friends and asked them how on earth we could track down the then eighty-nine men and women who had been exonerated from death row.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • We called journalist friends and asked them how to conduct interviews; we called fund-raiser friends and asked them how to raise money; and most importantly, we called attorney and activist friends and asked them how on earth we could track down the then eighty-nine men and women who had been exonerated from death row.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • We called journalist friends and asked them how to conduct interviews; we called fund-raiser friends and asked them how to raise money; and most importantly, we called attorney and activist friends and asked them how on earth we could track down the then eighty-nine men and women who had been exonerated from death row.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • Any golfer who has ever attended an organized golf outing or fund-raiser, which is nearly every golfer, has returned home with armfuls of golf towels, caps, ball scrubbers, green-repair tools, money clips, drink holders, shoe bags and head covers.

    What to Get a Golfer for the Holidays John Paul Newport 2011

  • In the back corner of the room stands a table set up for committees advertising upcoming parish events, and two women sell tickets to the November turkey supper fund-raiser—depositing the money they receive into a large Ziploc bag stuffed with cash and checks.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • That evening I was attending a big Democratic Party dinner at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, a black-tie fund-raiser, and the news spread through the room with whispers and gasps.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • On Friday morning, October 25, I was at a Wellstone fund-raiser in Minneapolis with Ted Kennedy.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • On Friday morning, October 25, I was at a Wellstone fund-raiser in Minneapolis with Ted Kennedy.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • That evening I was attending a big Democratic Party dinner at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, a black-tie fund-raiser, and the news spread through the room with whispers and gasps.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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