Word: generous
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...Harvard Law School's leadership in the area of public interest law will continue through the generous assistance of the family of Morris Wasserstein," Clark said in a press release. "The Wasserstein professorship will support valuable teaching and research in this important area of law, benefiting students and society at large...
...work right, IPOs reward the people capitalism is supposed to reward--dynamic entrepreneurs, not rapacious monopolists or financial card-sharks. Among high-tech firms, the beneficiaries usually include employees far down in the hierarchy, who were granted stock options, often because the companies couldn't afford high salaries or generous benefits. Certainly, venture capitalists and investment bankers make money from IPOs, and they can be used to palm off lousy securities to the public. But at their best, IPOs are a Frank Capra movie, not Wall Street...
...David Foster Wallace's marathon send-up of humanism at the end of its tether is worth the effort. There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones in which the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Wallace is definitely out to show his stuff, a virtuoso display of styles and themes reminiscent of William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis. Like those writers, Wallace can play it high or low, a sort of Beavis-and-Egghead approach that should spell cult following at the nation's brainier colleges...
...This very generous gift will add to the strength of one of Harvard's most distinguished and dynamic centers for international and area studies," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a statement to the press yesterday...
...This is not the first gift she's given us," Goldman said yesterday. "When I asked for the grant, she was very generous...