Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, as Rudenstine sees it, is thatoverly generous awards to Black students drainresources away from other needy students.Rudenstine and other Harvard officials have longargued that financial aid should be based solelyon need...
This will be easier for some faculties than others. For the wealthy schools with generous alumni, the issue boils down to setting priorities for fund-raising dollars. Most contributors don't care where their dollars go within the different faculties. Some of the larger ones do. In this case, the amounts involved are so low that big contributors' pet projects needn't be discouraged. But in the future, deans should not be afraid to encourage these alumni to contribute not to flashy projects but to basic, day-to-day budgets and student services...
Waugh could also be extraordinarily generous, both in praise for writers he admired -- most notably, Graham Greene -- and in discreet gifts to agencies of the Roman Catholic Church, which he had entered in 1930. In the end, though, he felt abandoned even by Catholicism. Pained by the populist liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Waugh discreetly asked a clerical friend, the Jesuit writer Martin D'Arcy, whether he might be excused from attending Sunday Mass. The answer was a firm but sympathetic...
...between economic efficiency and economic fairness. Even if the American economy benefits overall, there will be winners and losers. The obvious solution -- both to grease the political wheels for the agreement and to serve justice -- is for society to compensate the individual losers. For example, there should be generous retraining benefits for those thrown out of work. But conservatives don't like to admit that policies promoting growth can disserve fairness, while liberals don't like to admit that policies promoting fairness can disserve growth. So a natural deal -- pay for fairness policies out of the proceeds of growth policies...
...Baptist, so I believe in deathbed conversions. But this is amazing." Clinton was not alone in noticing the contradictions. China denounced the F-16 sale to Taiwan and threatened to pull out of international arms-control accords. Europeans, whom the Bush Administration has been browbeating for being far too generous with their agricultural price supports, called the wheat deal belligerent...