Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alumni have had buildings named after them for less. Sure, you thought the Cabots, the Lamonts, and the Widene rs were nice to Harvard, but no donor could be more generous than the Dartmouth men's hockey team was last night...
...sunny days before her free concert in New York City's Central Park last July, Singer Diana Ross, 39, made a generous offer: the proceeds from the TV taping of the show would be used to build a children's playground named after the erstwhile Supreme. But when the event's promoters announced that a thunderstorm had washed away the profits, there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last...
...future depends on the policies it adopts U.S. assistance is vital in providing the region with a head start. Washington should continue its support for agrarian reform which will lessen the power of local oligarchies and offer the peasant some hope of livelihood. In addition, the U.S. should be generous in supplying technical and monetary aid in helping the Central American nations diversity their agricultural sector so as to make countries more self-sufficient for food and less dependent on one crop economies...
Awakened at 5:30 a.m. with the news, a genuinely ebullient Reagan gave Jackson his full due. "If that guy could get him out and we couldn't, more power to him," he told aides. Good manners, in this case, also meant good politics: by being so generous with his praise, Reagan reinforced his nice-guy image and blunted any future attacks by Jackson about the Administration's handling of the Goodman case. Says a White House official: "We would have lost by scrimping...
...examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink of collapse. The Soviets have demonstrated skill at selling arms to poor African nations, often for hard currency, but they have even been less generous than the West with their economic aid. Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov has made it plain that the Soviet economy cannot afford to give substantial assistance to Third World countries. Most African nations have taken notice...