Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after all. Its board of directors agreed to sell the magazine to Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 57, head of a family owned publishing empire that includes 29 newspapers, the Conde Nast magazines (among them: Vogue, Vanity Fair and Gentlemen's Quarterly) and Random House book publishers. Newhouse offered a generous $142 million--$200 a share for the publication's more than 700,000 outstanding shares--and agreed to shelter the newly acquired property as a separate company under his corporate umbrella. Still, the announcement unsettled those who work for the magazine. "There is a great fear that a new boss...
...argue that the national Government should help out when it adds to local costs by establishing new standards, as it did in 1972 for water-treatment plants. Other urban advocates argue that welfare payments should be a federal responsibility, since many tightfisted communities export their poverty burden to more generous cities. New York City's Deputy Mayor Alair Townsend points out, for example, that about 14% of the homeless women and 8% of men living in the city's shelters are from out of town. Says Townsend: "These people gravitate to New York when things get really tough, knowing they...
...inflation has given the Federal Reserve the latitude to be fairly generous with the money supply and let interest rates fall in the past few months. A decrease in mortgage rates, from an average of 12.67% for a 25-year adjustable-rate loan last September to 11% now, has given pep to the bellwether housing industry. Between December and January, housing starts climbed 14.9% to an annual rate of 1.8 million, the sharpest rise in ten months...
...favorites are on Columbia Road N.W. in the funky neighborhood of Adams-Morgan. The Omega serves sumptuous Cuban dishes like black beans and rice. The Cafe New Orleans serves hot and spicy Cajun specialties. Both are cheap, delicious and generous...
...than three years before allowing this team's visit. Unlike Viet Nam and Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia), + Laos does maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S., though at the charge d'affaires level. But the Laotians here made it very clear that continued cooperation on the MIA issue is contingent upon generous...