Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel that he and seven other managers intended to take the company private in a $17.6 billion leveraged buyout, RJR's board members reacted with shock, one of them now says, "because he was raiding the company from the inside." At first blush, the $75-a-share offer seemed generous, compared with the market price of about $56 at the time. But the directors' shock became outrage when they later learned about the huge piece of the action that Johnson and his top executives planned to grab for themselves: a payoff that could conceivably amount to $2.6 billion in five...
...Kennedy is not above summoning the tragedies of the past to help him. In a televised debate two weeks ago, Malone tried to label the liberal Senator's position on crime too generous for criminals and too unsympathetic for victims. Kennedy responded, "no one has to tell me the effect of violence on a family"--thereby defusing the issue for the rest of the debate...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...father, I think, in addition to telling me what the American dream was all about -- and he certainly lived it -- was what I would call a compassionate conservative. He hated to borrow and he rarely borrowed. But he was immensely generous to the poor. There was hardly ever a person that came to that restaurant at the back door that ever went away hungry...
...election: as late as Oct. 20, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were even, but Reagan won by 9.7 points. Wirthlin, perhaps to pump up the G.O.P. troops, puts Dukakis' chances of bringing off a similar turnabout as 1 in 3; more cold-eyed analysts think those odds are overly generous...