Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's alumni are also apparently less generous than Princeton's, coming in fourth to Princeton's first. At least Yale didn't beat us on that one. But in the midst of a $2.1 billion capital campaign, one would hope that Harvard alumni could catch...
...lost the security of his real family: his parents divorced when he was three and his brother Ben a year younger. His father is the poet and literary scholar Franklin (F.D.) Reeve. His mother Barbara Pitney Lamb remarried, a stockbroker, Tristan Johnson, who was a kind and generous stepfather to Reeve and had four children from a previous marriage. Then the Johnsons had two children of their own. F.D. Reeve also remarried, adding three more children. In the separate civilizations of the burgeoning new families--one in Connecticut, one in Princeton--the one stable place in Reeve's life became...
...canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively gave his new jacket to a derelict in a Montparnasse bar--who tried to relieve the suffering of others because he felt his own so deeply...
MOSCOW: Just days before Boris Yeltsin's triumphant re- inauguration, his economics minister broke some unpleasant but not unexpected news: It may take longer than expected to deliver on all of those generous pledges promised during the campaign. Yevgeny Yasin, in an interview with the Russian Interfax news service, assured Russians that the government would deliver eventually. "A lot of economists and analysts are saying the only way Yeltsin's going to make good on his promises is to print more money," says TIME's Andrew Keith. That would cover the debt, but reintroduce the specter of inflation. Higher inflation...
...weakest link, according to those involved in the discussions, is Schwimmer. He is said to be balking at a longer-term contract, which Warner would surely demand in exchange for more generous remuneration. An aspiring movie star, Schwimmer may have something better to do, but it's probably not The Pallbearer...