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Word: generously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died a little sooner or a little later, might have been remembered as a hero. He founded a university in Angola, gave loans to women-owned businesses in Ecuador and ran a company that supplies heat to 147 homeless shelters in Boston. He spent much of his life doing generous things, but just enough doing reckless things to join the long index of scandals and self-destruction in untold Kennedy histories to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Family: Tragedy Strikes Again | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...retired from his positions at the University in 1965 and received an honorary degree in 1966 which cited him as a "Scholar-scribe, devoted to precision, precedent and propriety; longtime generous and helpful officer of this university," according to The Boston Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bailey, Former Secretary to Corporation, Overseers, Passes Away at 98 | 1/7/1998 | See Source »

...entire value of Feeney's ownership stake in the duty-free shop empire DFS Group Ltd., which he turned over to the foundations in 1984--remains in the trusts' coffers. Feeney's beneficence already ranks among the grandest of any living American and may someday make him the most generous philanthropist of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OTHERS WHO SHAPED 1997: CHARLES FEENEY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...these glorious times, I pledge a generous new labor contract next spring. Our shareholders may cringe at those words. But I'm flat tired of losing my top talent to competitors. Our dollhouse team moved on to bigger things: building real houses in the Sunbelt. The Gap poached hundreds of our point-of-sale reps, signing them to lucrative deals to man its cash registers. Nintendo wooed away our Year 2000 computer debuggers to design next-generation Diddy Kong. In today's tight labor market, such skills are tough to replace. I've located a few jobless elves in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANTA MEETS GOLDILOCKS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...multiple-birth mother, I know what the McCaugheys are in for. I hope a few more generous folks will give the McCaugheys some very important things: free counseling when they are stressed out and overwhelmed and some weekend-getaway packages for just the two of them, so that they can spend time alone together and stay connected. The best gift for any child is a healthy and strong marriage shared by two loving parents. DIANNE NITZAHN Sherman Oaks, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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