Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Contact Group"--the U.S., France, Britain, Germany and Russia--and accepted by the Muslims calls for a 51%-49% split in the Muslims' favor. "We're selling out to the battlefield reality," the Pentagon official conceded. However, sources at the State Department insist that the plan is more generous to the Muslims and is based on the Contact Group's proposals, although details of the map will be different...
...from his most ardent admirers--his teammates. They would watch him come into the clubhouse (sometimes after a late night drinking), tape his legs from buttocks to ankle, then go out and hit tape-measure homers. Unlike the aloof Joe DiMaggio, whom he replaced at center, Mantle was generous and funny and self-effacing. Even in 1961, when he and Roger Maris were chasing Babe Ruth's home-run record, Mantle was supportive of Maris. "I'll always be a Yankee," he once said, and indeed, he followed the fortunes of the club religiously...
Some Republicans argue that since corporate and foundation support for the arts outweighs federal support--$16 to $1--the NEA and NEH would not be missed. This is an illusion. Some American businesses, like Philip Morris, have been very generous in their support of the arts. But this generosity depends on their public relations needs. (If there were no lung cancer or emphysema, the arts would get much less.) Increasingly, these needs are defined as social rather than artistic. Hence the shift, in private philanthropy, to race- and gender-based programs, meant to make art what theatrical director Robert Brustein...
Keith N. Morgan, president of the Society ofArchitectural Historians, stated that "JohnCoolidge was one of the dominant scholars in thediscipline of architectural history and one of themost generous individuals anyone could ever havethe privilege to know...
Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums James Cuno said in a statement, "It is with a profound sense of personal loss that we acknowledge the recent death of John Coolidge. John was more than a colleague to us. He was a generous, personal friend to students, faculty colleagues, and museum staff. His cheerful presence will be deeply missed...