"Send your best, one-time gift to SarahPAC today," it says.

Additionally, they are given a one-time gift of $2,500 for a laptop purchase.

Nor was this a reasonable one-time gift that one friend gives another.

Carnegie gave away the bulk of his fortune in the form of one-time gifts to build libraries and museums.

And as with the Egyptian settlement, the financial burden may be offset by one-time gifts from Israel's foreign friends.

Some of that loss can be explained by exceptionally large one-time gifts the year before, The Chronicle said, which made the drop seem more dramatic.

She later bequeathed an additional $1.6 billion to open Salvation Army Kroc Centers across the nation, the largest one-time gift ever recorded.

A modest-size list of regular donors contribute at least $100 a year and a handful have given one-time gifts of $1,000, $5,000 and even $10,000.

To blunt that objection, Mr. Turner stepped in last November and offered a one-time gift of $34 million to help those countries make up the difference.

The most recent appeared Jan. 6 and read, in part: "Would a one-time gift of money enable you to get your life in order?