Word: generous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generous tax credit of $70 for individuals, $140 for couples will more than offset the effects of the sales tax for most families. Further, to promote investment and savings, the tax on unearned income will be cut from 10 per cent to 5 per cent; the capital gains tax on monies reinvested in Massachusetts will be eliminated; and individuals will be allowed to earn up to $500 in interest on savings, a couple $1000, without paying taxes...
...from the Sinai. Last week, by a vote of five to four (with many abstentions), the Israeli Cabinet set aside $250 million to be divided among the 1,400 Jewish families who will be obliged to vacate their homes, farms and businesses in the Sinai. The debate over the generous compensation, which ranges between $100,000 and $500,000 per family, reflected the ambivalence of the Israeli public toward the whole concept of withdrawal. The offer of money did not win over all of the settlers in the Sinai, by any means. "Now the real fight can begin," said...
...present; the land is no longer theirs, their freedoms are snatched away. Like the children of Belfast, both the Israeli and the Palestinian children resist the life imposed on them. The Palestinians show their strength of will in bitterness toward the enemy. The Israeli feelings are often more generous, perhaps because they are children of the victors...
Gifts for capital received during the year were $51,646,000 and gifts for current use were $39,323,000, a total of $90,969,000 as compared to $76,180,000 in the prior year. The large increase in gifts reflects the generous response of alumni and other friends to the Harvard Campaign...
...prominent example of this generous and benign attitude is Maurice Stans, 73, the chief money raiser for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Stans had pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts during the post-Watergate investigations of political fund abuses. Since Reagan assumed office, Stans has been quietly lobbying among his friends on Capitol Hill and in the Administration for some kind of symbolic rehabilitation. It took months for Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver to find an appropriately obscure post for Stans, but find one he eventually did. In early December Stans was named to the board...