Word: generous
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...least part of the gap, Congress in 1990 created the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Each state administers its portion of the $165 million budget as it sees fit, however. States like New York and California, which supplement the federal money with state funds, are among the most generous, covering more than 50 different medications. Georgia, by contrast, makes just five different drugs available, and only one of them is a protease inhibitor...
...blinkers. Last year there were a handful of strong female roles in popular films, not just Waiting to Exhale but less reductive fare: Pocahontas, Dangerous Minds, While You Were Sleeping, The Bridges of Madison County, Waiting to Exhale, Clueless, The Net, Sense and Sensibility. First Wives is in the generous spirit of those films. It takes a subject whose painfulness might not automatically attract middle-aged females ("Now playing at a theater near you: your husband left you for a younger woman!") and cannily repackages it as cathartic comedy...
...costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wanes in the face of competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. As in the new Local 254 contract, older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans to make room for new employees who will be paid far less? It's no wonder that income inequality is steadily increasing in America, and that many hard-working people are forced...
Shannon Lucid looked forward to a lot of things while preparing for her fifth mission in space, but she never expected tomatoes. So in the third month of her stay aboard the Russian space station Mir other provisions, Lucid was delighted to find a generous supply of the plump red fruit. "For the next week, we had tomatoes three times a day," she wrote in the weekly summary of events she beamed back to Earth. "It was a sad meal when we finished the last...
...club's treasurer, Andrew P. Schwartz '99, says that the club received a "generous" contribution from the foundation, but is not getting any money from the University or from the Undergraduate Council...