Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some sociologists fear the federal withdrawal could spur a renewed wave of migration of the needy from the South to Northern and Western states, where benefits are comparatively generous, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young worries about even shorter flights. "If Alabama decides to be irresponsible," he says, "Atlanta will be flooded with poor people...
...GOLDEN POND rewinds me of Sugar Daddies. Actually, it makes me think of all sorts of gooey candy like taffy or Bubble Yum or Star Bursts. But most of all, it makes me thing of Sugar Daddies--those generous-sized oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond...
...responsibility for dying social programs. then, the president ironically would present states with a political person's Choice. Either they would have to assume responsibility, for eliminating beneficiaries from less generous programs, or boost property and other local taxes dramatically. The New Federalism appears a political masterpiece of indirection designed to protect the President from flak. while dumping responsibility for his cuts on the states. Congress must not let him get away with that scheme...
...superfluous to say that Pollock is one of the legends of modern art. American culture never got over its surprise at producing him; fairly or not, he remains the prototypical American modernist, the one who not only "broke the ice"-in the generous words of his colleague Willem de Kooning-but set a canon of intensity for generations to come. The sad fact seems to be that no younger American artist, in the 25 years since his death, has quite got past Pollock's achievement. His work was mined and sifted by later artists as though he were...
...ZOMO.' " The selection process is said to favor brawny youths who in some fashion feel alienated from society. ZOMO members are generally kept apart from the people they are being trained to subdue. They live in their own barracks outside major Polish cities and enjoy special privileges, including generous salaries and ready access to consumer goods...