Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, "illegitimacy" has about as much to do with welfare as baldness does with Social Security expenditures. Numerous studies have established that welfare does not serve as an incentive to bear additional babies. Furthermore, out-of-wedlock births are increasing throughout the industrial world -- not because of generous welfare policies but because of changing mores and, in , many instances, declining male wages. Recall that Dan Quayle's original target wasn't some impecunious pregnant teenager but the high-achieving Murphy Brown...
...tart, sweet, generous, subtle comedy about cooking...
...them romantically. This is perhaps because cooking at his level has taught him to blend the practical, paradoxical gifts of calculation and improvisation, while his children are -- until they finally right themselves -- befuddled by abstractions and distractions. Like the cuisine it celebrates, this movie is tart, sweet, generous and subtle...
Mary Stansel worked for only a month as assistant to the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But her severance agreement last November was generous: two lump sums totaling $50,000, six monthly payments averaging about $5,400 each and, if N.A.A.C.P. executive director Benjamin Chavis did not find her a job paying at least $80,000 a year, an additional $250,000. The out-of-court settlement between Chavis and Stansel had remained private and indeed virtually secret until Stansel decided to introduce it into court. Chavis, she said, had not found...
SYDNEY: Jubilant in September when Sydney beat out Beijing for the 2000 Olympics, Australians are still looking for an organizer to mount the spectacle. As of last week, two handpicked candidates had turned down the top job, both saying their existing employers offered generous pay raises to keep them. Many critics feel the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games flubbed by offering bronze-medal remuneration -- $292,000 a year -- for a gold-medal job. Others are aghast that the honor of the position is apparently not incentive enough. Said salesman Charlie Perkiss: "They must start looking for someone...