Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional pensions are based on a formula that takes into account the length of service and the average of the recipient's three highest-salaried years; generous cost of living increases bloat benefits further...
...been easy. Winter, who lives in San Jose, Calif., calculates that it costs him about $10,000 a year to train. He has a half-time job, with full-time pay, at the First Interstate Bank, a major Olympic team sponsor. In effect, the bank is giving him a generous half-salary subsidy. Even so, he and his wife Gloria, who works at a state unemployment office, go in the hole about $200 a month for his training costs. There is no money in endorsing weights or lifting suits. Amino acids cost $22 a jar, and Winter fortifies himself with...
When embarking on foreign vacations, a generation of U.S. tourists could look to the mighty dollar as a generous and supportive traveling companion. For the first two decades of the postwar years, highly favorable exchange rates made vacationing abroad, particularly in Europe, a bargain that more and more Americans could not resist. Then in the late '60s and into the '70s, the growing strength of foreign economies and a weakening dollar sent prices skyhigh, transforming the trip abroad into an expensive, even prohibitive luxury...
...Effie Gotham's marriage. Harvey is a rich man who doesn't have to work and who spends his abundant leisure time studying the Book of Job, on which he is preparing an essay. The problem of why suffering exists is, for him, the only problem. Effie is a generous-spirited but angry woman, an antinomian who feels that her anger at the excesses and errors of capitalism means that she does not have to abide by the rules--anyone's rules...
...food, but officials estimate that about 46,000 have remained in Zimbabwe, some of them encamped at bus stations and marketplaces and in fields. The Marymount Mission near Rushinga in northeastern Zimbabwe is serving a daily ration of beans and soup to refugees. Although local Zimbabweans have been generous to the Mozambicans, who are of the same tribe, the Shona, their country is also stricken by drought and there is little food available. However, the U.N.'s World Food Program has agreed to supply Zimbabwe with foodstuffs worth $1 million to feed the refugees. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe...