Word: generous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because there are no easy outs from the second circle of hell, that's why. Those stuck there have three choices: getting a personality transplant, being extravagantly generous--buy everyone in your entryway a gram of coke!--or teaching yourself solitaire. As the president of a final club once remarked to me, "The meek might inherit the earth, but they won't get punched for the Porc...
...Tisch brothers are generous donors to several charities. They have given more than $10 million to New York University, where Larry Tisch is chairman of the board of trustees. He is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "I feel I must give back," says Tisch. He and his brother are active patrons of and participants in various Jewish organizations, including the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and the United Jewish Appeal. The family is religious: once a week a Talmudic scholar comes to Tisch's office, where he and two of his sons...
...haven, West Germany has many attractions. The country is relatively safe and stable. It offers steady growth, low inflation and generous welfare programs. Best of all, the Federal Republic has an unusually liberal asylum law that was adopted in 1949 to accommodate Germans fleeing East European Communist rule. Small wonder that roughly 245 refugees, mostly from the Middle East, Iran and the Indian subcontinent, arrive each day. The sharply rising flood of immigrants, however, has set off cries of protest from West Germans...
DEREK BOK and his most important administrators were supposed to have supped with 600 of Harvard's most celebrated and generous alumni and faculty Thursday night at an enormous dinner commemorating the University's 350th anniversary...
...alumni, students, and friends of Harvard--including some of the University's most generous benefactors--converge on Cambridge, however, University finance officials may regret the decision to exclude all fundraising from the event...