Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were more generous with our judgements, perhaps we wouldn't have to wait until someone died or until something else dramatic happened to see the more meaningful side of people. As students, we are trained to be careful critics of everything, never to open a book or newspaper without an eye to its flaws. Yet if we looked at the people around us with a concerted effort to discover the best in them, might it be possible that they wouldn't seem so annoying to us after...
After Hale and Dorr gave her only a short maternity leave, Green said she helped write a more generous maternity leave policy for the firm...
First, HCSSA would like to express our appreciation for the generous help and support we received from GSAS and the university administration in arranging Hailei's funeral and in facilitating his family's visit. Special thanks go to Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Garth McCavana; Ellen Fox, Director of Student Services; Associate Director of the International Office Sharon Ladd; Counselor from the Bureau of Study Counsel Sunglim A. Shin; President of Graduate Student Council Adam Fagen for their active participation in a seminar discussion on Hailei's death and for their help in other matters...
Plays Well's generous burden is redundancy. Like Mims, Gurganus has a native connection to North Carolina and the windy school of Southern writing. But unlike many of its more portentous graduates, he grounds catastrophe with humor. A shopping bag full of sex toys splits open on a crowded subway. A whimsical riff describes heaven as a polymorphous playground where Emily Dickinson is one of the few chaste holdouts. Elsewhere too, Gurganus puts a lot of buck-and-wing into what his fictional half calls a "Comedy of this shuffle toward the crypt...
...sexual advance toward her six years ago, when he was Arkansas Governor. When Jones' team of lawyers recently quit after she rejected a settlement offered by the President's attorneys, it was Whitehead's group that hooked Jones up with her present attorney. And thanks mainly to Rutherford's generous funding--Whitehead estimates its share of her court costs could add up to $200,000--Jones has been able to force the President, who denies the incident happened, to defend himself in a trial to begin...