Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still more horse trading can be expected later in House-Senate conference. Some of the far more generous transition rules kneaded into the House version of the bill will doubtless be bartered away, but others are sure to be affirmed in order to keep the support of influential Representatives for a sweeping overhaul of the tax code. Some of the deliberate obfuscation may clear up, however; the Senate last week piously passed a nonbinding resolution asking that the conference committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still...
...President, dwarfed by a giant sepia photograph of OSS Founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan behind the rostrum, paid generous tribute to these erstwhile practitioners of the dark arts of spying, espionage, sabotage and behind-the-lines derring-do. The OSS's achievements, said Reagan, were of the sort for which "praise and thanks can only come from history and not your contemporaries." But he tried to make up for the slight, saying, "We honor you, we salute you, we thank you for a job well done...
...suggested to Murphy by Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson, an old friend and colleague from the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News. "It's a beautiful fit for us," said Johnson last week. The Sun's owners, the Abell family, said that the Times Mirror offer was simply too generous to refuse. Critics wondered whether the Times was paying too much for the Sun. "Prices for media properties have been running high," admitted Times Mirror Chairman Erburu. "But if you make the right acquisition and get a satisfactory return, it's O.K." Erburu, who has led his company to record...
...least 10 percent of the Ed School's 250 representatives will be there because they are "generous benefactors," says Dudley Blodgett, director of the school's external relations...
University administrators have no qualms about hitting up the "most generous benefactors" for a steeped-up donation." Besides lab and Quad renovation, the current priorities for fundraising, which are also the pet problems of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, are graduate education, junior faculty development and international studies...