Word: generous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday, however, the House Foreign Affairs Committee opted for a less generous compromise. It endorsed a plan worked out by Democrat Dante Fascell to give Reagan only $65 million in military aid for each of the next three fiscal years. It also attached eleven pages of conditions designed to curb human rights abuses by the Salvadoran government and to bring about "a dialogue, in good faith and without preconditions," between the government and the guerrillas. The aim is to achieve "an equitable political solution to the conflict." If the government refuses to participate, U.S. aid would be cut off within...
...inspections and the heavy investment required to produce items in limited demand, had justified their high return. Rickover had contended that a 1934 law that limits profits on renegotiated Government contracts to 10% for ships, but that does not cover various supplies, was a proper gauge of a generous profit...
Certainly, the depressed economy has increased the allure of the jobs, technical training and generous student loans offered by the military. "Students know that if they go in and become, say, nuclear-weapons specialists, they can come out and demand a salary of $60,000 a year," says History Professor James Leutze, who heads the ROTC board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Military salaries, while not always competitive with those paid for comparable jobs in the private sector, are more than respectable, especially considering the wide array of benefits that are available: free medical care, room...
...Soviets have been equally generous in providing more conventional arms to the Syrians. Since the Lebanese conflict began, the Soviets have supplied Syria with about 100 fighter aircraft to replace those lost in dogfights over the Bekaa Valley. The bulk of the new aircraft are advanced MiG-23s. Some 300 to 400 T-62 and T-72 tanks have been added to the Syrian arsenal, well in excess of the number of older and smaller T-54s and T-55s lost in Lebanon. The Soviets have also provided about 200 armored personnel carriers, and between 600 and 800 trucks...
...others too, including Star Trek II and E.T. The company spends about $3 million a year on research and development of things like better sound systems for movie theaters, and it is pioneering the art of film far more than any of the Hollywood studios. Even after generous profit deals for his stars and associates (Mark Hamill, for instance, will receive 1.5% of the profits of Return of the Jedi), Lucas has kept enough for himself, roughly $20 million, to provide the ordinary domestic comforts...