Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these towns have persuaded their universities to pound out tax agreements as substantial as Harvard's. Newton Mayor Theodore Mann, for instance, says he is looking for more generous reciprocation from his city's five colleges, the largest of which is Boston College...
...year. Tentatively titled the Alliance of Ne'erdowell Graduates just Sitting and Thinking (ANGST), the organization's primary mission will be to provide support, solidarity and a weekly newsletter for its core constituency. As ANGST's founder, I would naturally be honored to assume its presidency, along with the generous stipend which this office will provide...
NELC Department Administrator Carol Cross remembered Lichtenstadter as a "very warm, fine woman who was always generous with her time, even after she retired...
Help at this level can be generous, and aid-giving countries have notably eased some disasters. Andrew Natsios, director of foreign disaster assistance for the U.S. Agency for International Development, says as many as 350,000 Bangladeshis were saved this time, thanks to a U.S.-built cyclone-warning system. Natsios also points to U.S.-supplied volcano and earthquake monitors and a Chilean tidal-wave-alert network. With satellite analysis of African vegetation, he adds, Washington pre-positioned 30,000 tons of supplies before the famine last year in the Sudan...
...lenders don't feel any better knowing they have mainly themselves to blame for this fix. Through much of the '80s they were tripping over one another to offer generous terms for even the unlikeliest projects. "In the madness of that decade, many hotels were overfinanced and overleveraged," says Bruce Batlin, a partner with the consulting firm Pannell Kerr Forster. "A lot of hotels are in trouble because of that...