The college is also undertaking major fund raising for expansion of facilities and academic programs.

Each of the state's four major funds has invested in tobacco company stocks, the paper said.

A major fund raising effort in the mid-1980s saw the village acquire and develop its own recreation field.

Lehman Brothers is also said to be in talks to acquire a piece of a major fund.

Since financing any surgery would require a major fund raising effort, they might just as well return to Blanco.

"It would be irresponsible, if not impossible, to raise major funds under such circumstances," the board concluded in a letter to the society's 750 members.

Each ran major funds with big positions in Enron bonds.

This school is a private school aided by the major funds.

"Penn is about to have a major fund raising drive, and I wanted to raise the level of giving," he said.

"Sentiment has changed around the world on what we should do about monitoring the flow of major hedge funds," he said.