Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jewels," said one of her girl friends, as Beirut echoed with gossip that Saud was preparing to give his prospective bride $150,000 worth of gems. Ferial's none-too-prosperous parents were also pleased-they had six other children to educate, and Saud is notoriously generous to his relatives. "He is a King," said Ferial's mother. "Nobody would refuse a King...
...before her admirers. Standing before 1,700 members of the capital's press corps (see PRESS), she began reading a prepared speech: "I am told that . . . this is one of the largest press corps in the world." Then she looked up, surveyed the multitude, ad-libbed with a generous laugh: "Looking around this room, I don't doubt that it's true...
...Heinz Nordhoff said, "From then on, things went." Elected to the Bundestag as a Christian Democratic Deputy in 1949, Erhard took over the Economics Ministry in Konrad Adenauer's first Cabinet. He prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged the importation of such "incentive...
...offering generous tax exemptions to new investors, Operation Bootstrap attracted 169 new plants in the first five years (v. 19 in the previous five years), is now bringing in ten a month. To arguments that Puerto Rico owes its success to its position as a low-wage part of the U.S. customs area and to the free movement of goods between the island and the U.S., Moscoso replied: "Puerto Rico had this same kind of economic relationship with the U.S. from 1917 to 1940−and yet nothing much happened...
...think you may have been even too generous in rating Murrow's current performance [Sept. 30] ? As Britain's Boswell in her crisis some years ago, he was indeed great. Now we seem to have a slightly frustrated anachronism (including cigarette) solemnly orating poorly digested everyday news and personal political prejudices. Avast there, Murrow! Why not follow up that inspiration of taking a protracted vacation and give all of us a rest? Besides, we may need you for later...