Word: generous
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When my sister and I finally realized that no amount of begging, pleading or emotional blackmail would win a trip to Disney World or Paris, we would grudgingly accept our parents' Oh-so-generous offer...
...confess that we ourselves do not regard such acts as intrinsically morally offensive. We confess that we do find it offensive to conceal an attack on a particular--in our view courageous, intelligent and generous-hearted--individual in an act of prayer...
...above the current 7.1% in the U.S. Some of the smaller countries have been hit even harder: 19% are out of work in Ireland, 15% in Spain and 11% in Belgium. Such high rates would produce a political earthquake in the U.S., but Europeans are better cushioned by more generous unemployment benefits...
...clean, reliable source of power that could help wean America from its dependence on dirty fuels and foreign oil. The idea of harnessing an energy supply that was free as the breeze generated enough megawatts of excitement to light up an entire new industry. Spurred by generous government tax incentives, investors poured more than $2.5 billion into U.S. wind projects during the early 1980s...
...when the Rural Electrification Administration wired the countryside. But the oil embargoes and environmental concerns of the '70s prodded politicians to encourage the investigation of alternative energy sources. States began requiring their utilities to spend between 1% and 2% of profits on research, and the federal government added its generous tax credits for investments in renewables...