Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard embarks on a planned $2 billion fundraising campaign, some parts of the University are anticipating a generous financial boost...
...power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...
...wrong with a culture that values Wall Street sharks above social workers, armament manufacturers above artists, or, for that matter, corporate lawyers above homemakers." And as if to justify her hostility toward yuppies, she insists on painting an idyllic picture of blue-collar Americans as "more intellectually engaged," more generous of spirit and, of course, better in bed. Overall, her observations suffer from a simplistic yearning for a nonexistent era when the poor were not blamed for their poverty, when people did not cram their appointment books and when college graduates pursued ideals instead of salaries...
During the deliberations that led to August Wilson's being awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for drama last week, members of the Pulitzer board likened him to the playwright generally regarded as America's greatest: Eugene O'Neill. If that comparison seems overly generous -- Wilson has not yet produced a masterpiece to rank with Long Day's Journey into Night, nor does his body of work yet rival the four-decade outpouring that won O'Neill the Pulitzer four times and the Nobel Prize to boot -- the praise may merely be premature. In just over five years, since his first...
...1970s seemed as pressing as the need simply to find someone to oversee the troubled savings and loan industry. And so, after berating Timothy Ryan, 44, for his utter unpreparedness for the job, the Senate last week approved his appointment to head the Office of Thrift Supervision by a generous 62-37 vote...