Word: generous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inclined to find fault and fat in social programs, are those designed to save more than $89 billion over three years in defense spending. Military pensions should be scaled back, the report says, so that they no longer amount to about twice the rate found in the private sector. Generous cost of living adjustments have allowed some officers who retired ten years ago to make more than those of equal rank on active duty, and more than those who retired recently. Even issuing payroll checks results in waste. Private businesses can do it for about $1 a check...
...matter, you leave your wallets at home?" he asked after the first 17 horses were shown and only five were sold for a paltry total of $142,000. To help warm up the bidding and the bidders, Alexander ("Sasha") Ponomarev, Tersk stud manager, seized the gavel and ordered generous rounds of vodka. The stratagem was rewarded. Ken Ford of San Antonio success fully bid $52,000 for a gray mare named Pishka, which he said would be a present for his daughter Tina, 20. After the auction, the Soviets said they had sold 24 Arabian purebreds...
Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Mondale and Senators Fritz Hollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California, condemned Reagan's approach and instead proposed more generous federal support. Cranston offered a plan featuring financial bonuses for improving test scores. Topping the $11 billion program Mondale announced six weeks ago, Hollings unveiled a $14 billion program that would give $5,000-a-year raises to all 2.3 million public school teachers. Hollings also borrowed from the Bard: "Shall the public schools of this land be bound in shallows and in miseries, or shall we take the tide at the flood...
...keep this horrible war going on long enough, well-meaning but misguided people will call for negotiations to bring out what is euphemistically known as power sharing. Well, we've tried that in the past. When the Sandinistas first came to power in Nicaragua, this country was extremely generous in its support. We hoped that the revolutionary government would live up to its promise to institute democracy and pluralism. But they failed to keep every promise they made. So we know what happens when you try to share power with Communists. How can we in good conscience force...
...lifted his career into orbit, it has not changed Fierstein's life very much in other ways. He still has an apartment in Brooklyn, where he lives alone with two dogs, still rides the subways and is still trying to curb, without much apparent progress, an overly generous waistline. His former lover, the bisexual schoolteacher, was thrilled to see Fierstein win the Tonys; Fierstein, meanwhile, has become involved with another actor-writer. Right now, however, he is thinking about life after Torch Song, packing up in his dressing room, and saying goodbye to his pet rabbit, Arnold; a friend...