Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's relatively low losses also put it inan excellent position to pay out more income. "IfHarvard had done as poorly as the general marketit couldn't have been as generous with endowmentfunds," said the analyst at Dean Whitter
After celebrating Thanksgiving with the traditional dish last Thursday, the Harvard women's swimming team helped itself to a generous serving of Lion Saturday--Columbia's Lions that...
...Entrepreneur Eugene Lang promised 61 Harlem sixth-graders he would pay their college costs if they stayed in school. As it turns out, he laid the seeds not only for their future education but also for a host of generous imitators around the country. The latest and perhaps largest benefactor is Avron Fogelman, a Memphis real estate developer and co-owner of the Kansas City Royals. Last week Fogelman, 47, announced he would subsidize tuition perpetually for disadvantaged Memphis-area public school students who go to Memphis State University. Fogelman has put up an initial $2.5 million, and will...
...Senate's majority leader, flared up just like Wright after visits to the White House, though Johnson was far more cautious about who heard him. "That man does not deserve to be President," L.B.J. roared one night back in his Capitol office, even after Ike had poured him a generous portion of Scotch and soda. Poor old Ike, Johnson recounted, did not know where legislative bills were in Congress or even what was in them...
...generous, hopeful time, produced terrible urban policy and dispiriting architecture, while in the '80s, a gilded, ungenerous age, the nation is saving buildings and repairing cities. An uncomfortable irony, but preservation is a conservative movement. Thus it carries with it a whiff of complacency...