Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream the other night that a generous alum had donated $7 million toward the construction of a student center for Harvard's uncomfortably decentralized campus. Of course, that's what really happened last week when Katherine Bogdonovich Loker helped move along plans to turn Memorial Hall into the first-year dining hall, theatre and all-purpose campus meeting place...
...that the two goals aren't necessarily opposing. But the intermediate objective is to delay an answer to this question for a year or two. With college ending and Real Life fast approaching, a fellowship or a travel grant is the best we can hope for. That, and generous thesis readers, continued good times and long-lasting friendships. No matter what we do, one fact is unchangeable: We're leaving Harvard in nine months...
...Monday, Sept. 14, Germany's central bank allowed a key interest rate to slip for the first time in five years, from 9.75% to 9.5%. The cut was hardly a generous one on a Continent desperate for cheaper credit and stronger growth, but it was enough to set off foreign-exchange traders already nervous about the upcoming French referendum on Maastricht...
When the going gets tough, the incumbent gets generous. Add up the altruism President Bush has demonstrated this month as he tries to close the gap with Clinton...
...Americans are good and generous people," said Dukakis. "They care about their neighbors. But they also have a right to an economic system that demonstrates fairness...