Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONSIDERING THAT THE President just signed a bill that contains generous amnesty provisions, it seems entirely innappropriate to crack down on H-1 immigrants. It is safe to assume that Congress did not intend to create a strange and unfair dichotomy between illegal and legal aliens and merely overlooked this provision. Such mistakes do happen...
...Nicaragua. Last week the actor hit the hustings in upstate New York, livening up fund raisers for Democratic Congressional Candidates , Rosemary Pooler of Syracuse, his hometown, and Louise Slaughter of Rochester. As he went door to door speaking on Central America, Gere met a swelling electorate. "People were extraordinarily generous," he said. "They were dressed up in their best. Suddenly 18 people lived in each house; 15 cars were in every driveway." The show biz apparently worked. Said Pooler: "My 17 1/ 2-year-old daughter will never be the same...
...other municipalities, officials were not even that generous. When we gathered the signatures on petitions for special sites to which they would send a registrar on a given day for two hours, they contrived to disqualify signatures, made excuses for long delays, and griped constantly about going to so much trouble for people who they said wouldn't understand what they were voting...
...brand-new station wagon. 2) Sell off your shares in Conglomerate Corp. 3) Give a generous donation to Ivy University. 4) Apply for a home- equity loan to pay for the new boat. 5) Take a trip to an investment seminar in Hawaii and deduct it as a business expense. 6) Schedule Joe's long- postponed gall-bladder operation. 7) Pay business expenses (like your accountant's fee) a year in advance so you can write off a larger...
...President gave the center a send-off with a generous measure of praise for its eponym, who turned 62 on dedication day. Wishing Carter a happy birthday, Reagan, 75, grinned as he assured him, "Life begins at 70." He complimented the onetime Georgia Governor for his civil rights leadership in the South and handed him a verbal bouquet, a thank-you for "gracing the White House with your passion and intellect and commitment." In turn, Carter thanked his successor for his "generous, gracious and thoughtful" remarks. The warmth Reagan conveyed in his speech, added Carter, made him understand "more clearly...