Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worse than absurd to say we cannot afford to be generous because of our own debts and social problems. As Bush proclaimed in the State of the Union, we are the most productive nation in the world, at least for the moment. The very collapse of communism will save us billions. If we choose to consume our riches (and more) rather than invest and share them, that is a statement about our spiritual condition, not our economic one. Which brings us back to the question of greatness...
Shifting public attitudes are one reason that the most potent N.R.A. weapon -- the threat to swamp opponents on Election Day -- has been proving harder to deliver. The association's political-action committee, the fifth most generous in the country, spent nearly $4.7 million to back political candidates in the 1988 election, up from $876,000 in 1980. Yet according to a study by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the N.R.A. has failed to unseat a single one of its targeted incumbents in the past two congressional elections...