Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document, the U.S. will offer to help finance development of the Lavi, a new Israeli fighter jet. Other facets of the arrangement may include placing U.S. military equipment in Israel, holding top-level military exchanges, conducting joint exercises and sharing worldwide intelligence data. The U.S. may be even more generous with its financial aid, partly by turning a larger percentage of its huge annual subsidy (an estimated $2.6 billion for fiscal 1984) into outright grants...
...resolution by two to' one. But an enormous assault by well-financed military contractors was able to reshape that popular sentiment in time for the election. It would take a few hundred thousand dollars, but the corporations could be sure that they were spending their money on nothing more generous than their own economic self-interest...
South Captain Andy Stoebner was not as generous to his squad. "Winthrop was just a better team. They have some really good football players," he said. Stoebner blamed his team's lack of success on poor blocking...
...Superintendent. But, the School Committee wanted to be "fair," so it upgraded all 14 senior custodians without a recommendation. This action gave all senior custodians a 6% increase on top of a 6% contracted pay raise. Fairness is not at issue. The School Committee was merely being generous with someone else's money--yours...
...writings (he wrote, for instance, that one princely foe was a "fainthearted wretch and fearful sissy" who should "do nothing but stand like a eunuch, that is, a harem guard, in a fool's cap with a fly swatter"). Yet he was kindly in person and so generous to the needy that his wife despaired of balancing the household budget. When the plague struck Wittenberg and others fled, he stayed behind to minister to the dying. He was a powerful spiritual author, yet his words on other occasions were so scatological that no Lutheran periodical would print them today...