Word: generous
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...Volcker is too generous with the money and interest rates drop too far, foreigners could start shunning U.S. investments and send the dollar into a steep decline. That might cause a sudden burst of inflation by making imports more expensive. For the moment, though, the dollar seems to be holding its own. On the day Citibank led the prime-rate cuts last week, the dollar surprisingly rose against the deutsche mark and the French franc. One reason for the dollar's continued strength is that foreign central banks, especially in Western Europe, have been reducing interest rates in their...
...from the beautiful Angela whom Tartaglia wants for himself. At the same time, the magician Duandarte, who long ago taught King Deramo the secret of inhabitating the bodies of other people and beasts, is returning to Serendippo in the shape of a parrot. Gozzi's fabulous fantasy concocted with generous helpings of magic and love is--some things are easy to guess--fantastic...
Civil Service Pensions. Employees who were added to the federal payroll after last Jan. 1 are covered by Social Security, but some 2.8 million who were hired earlier as well as 1.9 million retirees or their beneficiaries enjoy a more generous plan. For example, after 30 years of service, they can retire on full pension at 55. The total cost of civil service pensions in fiscal 1984 was $21.9 billion. Reagan's budgeteers have outlined a fairly detailed plan to increase employee contributions to the program, reduce future cost of living increases in the pensions, and raise...
...toll of Flick victims has been growing steadily. In June, Kohl's Economics Minister, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, resigned amid accusations that he had accepted $50,000 in 1979 and 1980 in exchange for allowing the Flick firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff faces trial next January on criminal charges. In October, Rainer Barzel, president of the Bundestag and a senior member of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, also stepped down. The weekly Der Spiegel published a Bonn prosecutor's report that the Flick company had paid more than $700,000 to a Frankfurt law firm, and that...
...honor has been called the "Nobel Prize of liver research." Given every three years since 1970 by the Falk Foundation of Freiburg, West Germany, the Eppinger Prize carries an award of $5,000, and among hepatologists (liver specialists), a generous measure of international prestige. But last spring, when Dr. Howard Spiro, 60, a Yale gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when...