Word: generously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be generous to call the shot that dethroned the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers a turn-around jumper...
...University has managed to escape manyadverse effects of recent cuts in federal aid toeducation because of generous alumni and asuccessful endowment, now at $3.5 billion,Shattuck said. The size of donations means Harvardcan rely less than other schools on federal...
...Fahd clearly plans to keep the Saudi welfare state intact. He pledged last month to continue free education and medical care for all citizens and to maintain generous subsidies for such services as transportation, communications and electric power. Says Planning Minister Hisham Nazer: "The government is committed to providing every Saudi citizen with a minimum standard of living. But once he is healthy and educated, it is the individual's responsibility to improve his condition...
Elsewhere in the gulf, other thinly populated oil producers are suffering assorted woes. Kuwait, which survived a stock-market crash in 1982, faces a $1 billion budget deficit this year. Yet the idea of cutting the country's generous welfare-state outlays remains wildly unpopular. In Oman, declining oil prices will hold the economy's growth well below the whopping 14% gain achieved last year and will force the government to curtail projects in its five-year plan. Omanis are already borrowing abroad and using foreign currency reserves to finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven...
...factual truth of this can be assessed by anyone who visits the Reynolds retrospective now running at London's Royal Academy. Reynolds' paintings have long since faded, mimicking his reputation. "Sir Sploshua," as others called him for his generous and Rubenesque handling of wet paint surfaces, had an imp of fakery lodged in his breast. He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art. To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil. "Varnished three times with different varnishes, and egged...