Word: generous
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...extend their authority into areas of life as diverse as racial discrimination in restaurants and limits on farm products. Most of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s depends on the Commerce Clause. And in recent years Congress has eagerly seized upon the court's generous reading of the clause as a license to extend its jurisdiction even further, adding to the list of federal offenses crimes such as carjacking and drive-by shootings...
Although the Faculty has objected strongly tothe reductions, many impartial observers havedescribed Harvard's package as extremely generous...
...bills dismantling protection of air and water simply right-wing truculence? If not, are they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...
...people I'm staying with are really generous and encouraging, " he added...
Wilder's camera is generous to Swanson, playing with the copious material she gives him to create confusion between light and shadow, cinema and life. The camera chills, not only with beautiful photography, but with inspired editing which creates a dialogue of images, blending forms from one scene subtly into another...