Word: generous
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Foreign aid is not a new field for the I.L.G.W.U., which has many foreign-born members. Over the years, the union has handed out a generous $25 million to various philanthropic projects, many of them in other countries. One project is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Maritime Trades Institute, a boys' orphanage near Palermo, Sicily, which the I.L.G.W.U. has supported to the tune of $600,000 over the past eight years. Other labor unions (notably the steelworkers and the carpenters) have been lavish, too. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has contributed $600,000 to Israel, $500,000 to eight...
...CURRIER & IVES TREASURY, edited by Colin Simkin (Crown; $10), contains 80 prints in color, generous in size (10 in. by 14 in.), and calculated to hasten the pulse of anyone devoted to forthright Americana...
Five thousand may turn out to be too big or too small, but it seems to me a reasonable if generous estimate of the number of bona fide first-choice candidates of top quality we would be likely to get at the peak of the tidal wave. I emphasize it because I feel that the astronomical figures of total college enrollment which have been used so loosely have obscured the scope and nature of Harvard's problem and it is desirable to try to define as concretely as possible the magnitude of the pressure we will face...
...material cares. He was the son of an army surgeon, studied law to please his family, but soon turned to music. When he returned from his studies in Berlin and Vienna, he married the daughter of a general and a baroness, and at the age of 31 received a generous government pension which has kept them comfortable ever since...
What really clinched the decision was Newhouse's offer to keep the paper's top executives at their posts. Newhouse gave Publisher Hanson and General Manager Harry B. Bradley, 60, generous contracts to stay put until they are 65. He even gave a contract to Hanson's son Victor, 25, currently serving in the Air Force, assuring him the chance to enter the business and work toward a top managerial...