Word: generous
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...Hancock '93, and I searched around for something to build. We gave some thought to a data compression/decompression chip, but decided it would be difficult to implement one that would do a decent job, especially when we were supposed to use no more than 10,000 transistors--a generous limit, it turned...
...most intriguing and powerful character in the story is not Hang, but her father's sister, Aunt Tam. To Hang, Aunt Tam is generous and caring, yet frightening and overbearing; her presence further complicates Hang's short adolescence. The peculiar relationship between Tam and Hang's mother escalates into a rivalry to perpetuate the separate family lines. In Aunt Tam's character, the author manages to capture the essence of bitterness and hope in survival...
...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
...must have workable enforcement mechanisms. In the absence of these mechanisms, countries resort to unilateral actions which undercut the trading system. There must be, in any reconstitution of the GATT and in subsequent rounds, provision for the formation and operation of dispute resolution panels, adoption of panel recommendations and generous provisions for substantive retaliation, if the panel's recommendations are ignored...
...brightest students ever at Harvard... ever," said Dan Lieberman, a former Dunster House tutor. "What's more important is that she was a warm, generous, down-to-earth, modest, courageous person...