Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other point on that. Once the current crisis is over, will the gulf states be as generous with regard to the Palestinians and the P.L.O. as they have been in the past...
...believe have been miserly rewards for riding in the U.S.-led posse against Iraq. So far, Damascus has reportedly received at least $1 billion from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the exiled Kuwaiti government for stationing its troops in the gulf. But the West has been less generous, especially in light of the U.S.'s decision to forgive Egypt's $6.7 billion in military debt. Syria remains on Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism and thus is cut off from U.S. aid. Britain maintains its refusal to restore relations with Damascus, which were severed...
...have all been the poorer for this. And we are infinitely the richer for his sudden and glorious reincarnation by Gerard Depardieu in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's faithful and generous adaptation of Rostand's work. For the film not only restores this splendid spirit to his rightful place in our consciousness but also redeems a virtually abandoned cinematic tradition...
Public health is one of the areas in which Congress has promised to be most generous to children. The law provides that everyone under 19 and living below the poverty line is to be covered under Medicaid by the end of the century. Scholarship funding for the National Health Service Corps, which helps bring medical services to rural families, is to be revived. Child advocates cheered the results. "We've got off on the right track for the '90s," said Sara Rosenbaum of the Children's Defense Fund. But she cautioned, "The question is whether we're going to live...
...baby boomers who came before, which means that employers competing for skilled workers will be drawing from a smaller pool. Today's young people hope that that fact, combined with some corporate consciousness raising about the importance of families, will give them bargaining power for longer vacations, more generous parental leaves and more flexible working conditions...