"In September 1992, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton contributed $3 million in scholarships to the. University of Missouri-Columbia."  (www.centerforethics.org/Walmart.PDF)

And if you think that large friendly donations to educational institutions couldn't possibly result in nice warm fuzzy publications about the donor's family and interests, then you ain't been around academia (in the US anyway) for long :-)

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