Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changes make Stanford the third high-ranking university in a month--following Princeton and Yale--to announce generous new policies aimed at attracting students from the middle class...
Following roughly similar announcements by Princeton and Yale in the last three weeks, Stanford's changes leave Harvard and Duke as the only universities in U.S. News & World Report's top five still using a traditional--but often less generous--system...
That assessment was already looking generous by the weekend, as Americans resigned themselves to turning on the news or picking up their papers and having to read stories that painted the White House as a harem, the President as a lecher and the government as a hostage to his libido. No matter what he does, the President now faces a steady flow of ugly leaks from the conversations Tripp recorded or recalled having with Lewinsky. In those conversations, Lewinsky is graphic in detailing, and at times denigrating, the President's sexual characteristics and performance. Clinton, she claimed at one point...
...background in politics but with a prized Washington asset: connections. Her mother Marcia Lewis, an author and socialite, lives at the Watergate (not far from the Doles, Lewis liked to tell associates); more important, Monica's mother knew Walter Kaye, a retired New York City insurance magnate and generous contributor to the Democratic Party. Kaye recommended Monica for a summer internship at the White House, a job she probably would not otherwise have landed. Monica "was excited about it," says a close college friend. "She enjoys hobnobbing." Especially with the famous and powerful. It was a trait that...
...solve. As share prices have soared in recent years, dividends have come to be regarded as only slightly more relevant than the gushing palaver in an annual report. In this so-called new era for investing, perfectly healthy electric utility companies--the widows-and-orphans stocks long known for generous dividend policies--have been slashing their payout rates without a trace of remorse. "It's worked out splendidly," says John Hodowal, chairman of Ipalco Enterprises, based in Indianapolis, Ind., who last year short-circuited the dividend by 32% and immediately bought back 22% of outstanding shares. What's so splendid...