Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting duel in his repertoire...
Health care--which, adminstrators say, is very generous in Harvard's package--is a major concern for professors nearing retirement, says Reisinger Professor of Slavic Literature Jurij Striedler, who is considering emeritus status...
...board of Paramount Communications recommended that shareholders reject Viacom's latest bid and again advised that they accept QVC Network's offer, estimated to be more generous by about $600 million...
...resolves another conundrum of local government: Cambridge's boastful claims of a budget surplus. If a town taxes, yet provides no services, the surplus is not much of an accomplishment and even less of a mystery. Well, perhaps "no services" is a bit of exaggeration. Cambridge is at least generous in providing Commissions on Animal Rights, Declarations of Nuclear Free Zone Status, replanting cermonies for Liberty Trees, and Domestic Partner Benefits (even for those, presumably, whose job it is to not plow the snow...
...agreement only allows cooperation betweenuniversities who both admit applicants withoutregard to their family's financial circumstancesand agree to provide full need-based aid to allstudents who are admitted. Rudenstine said only "avery small handful" of colleges and universitiescan afford such generous policies...