Word: generously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report's requests are modest, even generous. In the face of massive apathy on the issue, MSA asks only that Dean Spence set up a summer committee to investigate the need for a hiring plan and then publicly announce the committee's conclusions...
...interests these days, publishing companies have been popular buys. Reason: such enterprises, notoriously risky if started from scratch, can be bought at a relative bargain price because of the dollar's decline over the past three years. Last week Hachette, France's largest publishing house, helped itself to two generous slices of the U.S. market in just four days. First Hachette agreed to pay $448.6 million to purchase Connecticut-based Grolier, the publisher of the Encyclopedia Americana. Then the French firm paid $712 million for Diamandis Communications, the owner of a dozen magazines, including Woman's Day (circ. 6 million...
However, the dramatic dimension could have profited from from a generous dose of hamming-up. Though Gilbert does not provide any really smashing leads in the script (he tends to be rather too egalitarian with character development in this one), more of the players should have cut loose and been perhaps a tad self-indulgent...
Just like the gurus of Reaganomics, Peterson asserts that lifting the tax burden from the shoulders of the rich discourages consumption and promotes savings and investment. Really? Despite the generous taxation and spending policies of the Reagan administration, real fixed investment by corporations has increased only 2.6 percent per year under Reagan, compared to 7.1 percent under Jimmy Carter...
...World Food Program in Ethiopia. More than three-quarters of the 1.3 million tons of cereals needed in 1988 is already in the international pipeline bound for the east African nation; supplies are assured through October. Many countries have responded to the call for help with generous donations, including the U.S. with 250,000 tons, and the Soviet Union, Ethiopia's chief ally and a net grain importer, also with 250,000 tons...