Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need-blind admissions funds should be generous enough to live up to their name. Some students complain that Harvard offers their parents impossible choices. Sure, those students say, they could accept the financial aid packages offered them--but only if their parents remortgaged their homes...
Philanthropoids worry that the scandals at America's biggest charity will make Americans less generous. It would be nice if, instead, this episode led Americans to reconsider the virtues of another way to channel the generosity of the comfortable majority to those in need: Big Government...
This charge was always nonsense, but cold warriors never imagined they would ever have the chance to prove it. Now they do. The coldest of cold warriors are among those advocating the most radical and generous embrace of the erstwhile enemy. Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and Dr. Strangelove himself, calls Western assistance for Russia more justified than even the Marshall Plan. Richard Nixon, lifelong anticommunist, pushes massive Western aid and debt relief for Russia. One high Reagan Administration official, Fred Ikle, has gone so far as to propose a "defense community" between America and Russia modeled...
...Because critics are beneath contempt, they think they are above reproach. And they may be right. Once, when a notoriously generous reviewer was accused of taking Hollywood money, a cynical colleague dismissed the charges: "Why pay for something you can get for free...
...translation from the election-year code book was needed to make that message clear. With recession-sore Americans demanding economic relief and right-wing Republican challenger Pat Buchanan riding an America First bandwagon, Bush is determined not to give anyone the impression that he is being overly generous to foreigners. If that discourages Yeltsin...