Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard has a financial aid policy beyond the letter of the expectation of society," Green said. "If we were in a society where things were tighter...Harvard would not feel the initiative to be as generous...
Students are often most aware of the flaws. University of Southern California sophomore Vinkey Moroak says one friend got a generous grant even though her father earns $300,000. The secret: the nonworking mother filed a separate tax return and claimed the daughter as her dependent, while the family home was placed in an aunt's name. "They're hurting people who really need the money," says Moroak. "I see people who are on financial aid driving around in their brand-new Mercedes," protests Juan Abenojar, a fifth-year student at UCLA. "What is going on here...
From the very day we met her she became an incredibly loyal and generous friend. Always smiling and full of enthusiasm, Petra was one of the warmest and most charismatic people at the symposium and her uncompromising fight for human rights and ecology was conveyed in a firm and noble manner...
While charming and generous with his friends, he is another man altogether at the foundation. Several of the foundation's directors have left in a fury over his autocratic ways; a group of friends and business associates controls most decisions. Membership is expensive: directors pay $10,000 a year for the privilege, trustees pay $5,000, and 54,000 others tithe regularly like churchgoers. "Only directors can vote, trustees can talk and members can applaud," complains Frank Calzon, the foundation's first executive director...
...nose-dives into the T-stop. Once there it rushes past the hordes of outdated punks on the escalator, skillfully nutting one or two with its crusty end, and just manages to get on the tram going downtown (disguised all the while as a proper baguette). At your generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair of wit and beauty so seductively titled in French, your coffee is cold. It stares up at you with glum foreboding, challenging...