Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sighed. "I said I have to help you rectify your mistake before it is over-whelmingly obvious to everyone that you're a skinflint, and I want to get done by 11, so let's hurry up before it gets too late...
...much," he confessed. "I just thought I'd try out some of that supernatural gimmickry on you. I'm just getting the hang of it myself. Anyway, we're not done yet. I still have to show why you need to donate that dollar instead of spending it. You see, if you donate it, Harvard will be able to invest it here"--we reappeared on the pitching deck of the ship--"by buying stock in the defense contracting firm. If, on the other hand, you choose to spend it, your dollar will wind up here"--we reappeared in the steamy...
...sandwich makers," I said. "But it really doesn't matter. I don't want to give up my dollar. I--or rather, my parents--have already spent the better part of a hundred G's keeping me here, and frankly, I think I've done my part to keep Harvard in spending money...
Even so, the condor is not back into the woods yet. Little has been done to rectify the environmental hazards that imperiled it. "Breeding in captivity was the easy part," says William Toone, curator of birds at the San Diego park. "The hard part is doing something to control the poisons and getting rid of the lead." Only then do biologists foresee a successful return of zoo- bred California condors, perhaps even Molloko's offspring, to their native home...
Something has to be done soon to help working parents care for their children -- and the Federal Government cannot avoid playing a role. With those propositions there is suddenly no longer any serious disagreement. Michael Dukakis says so, and so do Jesse Jackson and, mutedly, George Bush. In Congress, legislation is being pushed not only by liberal Democrats but also by Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who normally cannot be found within miles of any proposal to increase social spending. Most surprising, the Reagan Administration, after seven years of virtually ignoring the problem, is now pulling itself together...