Word: generously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before he became a Carter campaign coordinator, now earns more than $45,475 as White House staff secretary, keeping paper flowing smoothly. Similarly, Phil Wise, 26, a former director of interns in Carter's Georgia administration, was an effective campaign aide. But his $45,000 salary seems rather generous for a deputy appointments secretary...
...dividend the $1.2 billion in cash and securities that it got from the sale of Peabody Coal last June; others had hoped that the cash-rich but troubled copper company, which lost $22 million in the last quarter, would itself become the target of a takeover attempt involving a generous tender offer...
...their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed their frenetic ignorance. They could not peg Fidrych. He seemed content to sit up in his apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that he was a bit of a flake, a nut, a loony...
...businessman, whether he's a farmer or not, would be mad not to take a loan with such a generous interest rate...
Treasury's tax-reform proposals to Carter also contain many provisions designed to give business more money for investment. Among them: a cut in the top corporate tax rate from the present 48% to 46% or less; more generous investment tax credits; some easing of the double tax on dividends, which are taxed first as corporate profits and then as individual income to shareholders. Strangely, these concessions have made next to no impression on businessmen, who seem unwilling to believe anything good about the tax bill until it is sent to Congress with Carter's blessing...