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Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute

The Manhattan Institute, founded by

William Casey, who later became President Reagan's

CIA director, besides subsidies from a number of large conservative foundations has gained funding from such corporate sources as: The

Chase Manhattan Bank,

Citicorp,

Time Warner,

Procter & Gamble and

State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and philantropic arms of

American Express,

Bristol-Myers Squibb,

CIGNA and

Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget reached US$ 5 million a year by the early 1990s.

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Central processing unit

A CPU is the principal part of any digital computer system, generally composed of the main memory, control unit, and arithmetic-logic unit. It constitutes the physical heart of the entire computer system; to it is linked various peripheral equipment, including input/output devices and auxiliary storage units...

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington on 4 April 1949, creating NATO (= North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It was an alliance of 12 independent nations, originally committed to each other's defense. Between 1952 and 1982 four more members were welcomed and in 1999, the first ex-members of

COMECON became members of NATO (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland), which makes 19 members now. Around its 50^th anniversary NATO changed its goals and tasks by intervening in the Kosovo Crisis.

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