Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students solicited premiums from a number of record companies to entice generous donors. One of their largest and most popular gifts, offered for $90.30, was two hours of air time with the DJ of the donor's choice...
...audience, while enthusiastic and undoubtedly grateful for the opportunity to see a commercially successful band actually perform at Harvard, numbered no more than 300 people (and I'm being generous). This amounts to a subsidy of almost $30 per person for those who actually stuck around to see the band do their $100 a minute thing...
...fact, both the First-Year Formal and Spring Fling actually made a profit. The Victory Party cost less than $500 thanks to generous donations from corporate sponsors...
...constant contact with Dorris in recent months saw a different side of the man--and cannot believe he was a child abuser. According to Douglas Foster, director of school affairs for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Dorris was a "relatively cheerful, even-keeled, generous, outgoing person," whose anguish stemmed directly from recent events--the end of his marriage and the sex-abuse allegations. "Michael saw taking his own life as a rational way out," said Jeanne Friedman, a fund raiser in Berkeley who was close to Dorris for 26 years. "He felt that...
...Despite generous reprieves of humor, dialogue that leaps directly from page to ear and a richly textured narrative about the lost world of the '40s and '50s, Roth never lets up on his Jersey Job. When, after five years, Swede tracks down his daughter, she is living as Mary Stoltz in a squalid room in crumbling downtown Newark. She is worse than dead: an unwashed, half-starved, self-styled member of the Jain religion who prattles about the murderous effect soap and water have on germs at the same time that she confesses having blown up three more people...