1 Trump International Hotel and Tower New York: Trump provided his name and expertise to the building's owner (GE) during the building's re-development in 1994 for a fee totaling $40 million ($25 million for project management and $15 million in incentives deriving from the condo sales).
Ombudsmen can be found in government, corporations, hospitals, universities and other institutions. The first ombudsman was appointed in 1809 in Sweden to handle citizensâ complaints about the government. The word is pronounced âom-BUDS-manâ and is Scandinavian in origin.
The American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, the first permanent public school for the deaf in the U.S. is founded in Hartford, Connecticut. The chief impetus was given by a young divinity student, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.