Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...
...market got rocked last month, but it didn't and it hasn't, and now some experts say it won't. It won't tonight, anyway. So they're tipping better. "People were cheap for a while," says waitress Cynthia Cruz. "But now they're getting more and more generous. Things have definitely gotten good...
...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...
Despite sunny skies, no more than 300 students (to be quite generous) turned out to hear God Street Wine play its $7,500 set on the MAC Quad at this year's Springfest. While the Undergraduate Council members who organized and staffed the event deserve our thanks, Springfest was on the whole yet another disappointment...
...familiar cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...