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...great-aunt and a friend spoke on behalf of Driscoll, describing him as generous and helpful, according to Cosgrove...
...Viva and ScotTowels asked him to shake things up. So Dunlap sold billions of dollars in assets, chopped 35% of the work force, paid down debt and refocused the firm. By the time Scott was sold to Kimberly-Clark late last year, its stock had tripled, and Dunlap, via generous stock options and grants, had tucked away $100 million for himself...
...sort of pin money only Cartier understands. As Averell Harriman's wife and widow, she became a patron of defeated Democrats, opening her house to promising politicians, Bill Clinton among them. According to the numbers, Pamela Harriman was an effective party fund raiser, although not an especially generous contributor...
...Woodland Hastings, master of Pforzheimer House through 1995, characterized the Pforzheimers as "marvelous, warm, generous, modest and unassuming." He said the family kept in touch constantly in the months following the name change...
Once the G.O.P.'s No. 3 man in the House--current House majority leader Dick Armey defeated him in 1992--Lewis still retains enough seniority and power as a high-ranking member of the Appropriations Committee to bring his district generous funding for earthquake relief, water projects, highway improvements, a medical center and airport repairs...