Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal Government is also lending a generous hand with the Intelligent Transportation System program, which by the end of 1994 had spent $600 million on research, testing and installation in selected cities and towns. The aim of its is to develop not only smart cars but also smart highways that would regulate traffic electronically and reduce the possibility of accidents...
...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...
...recently recalled this arcane tidbit from adolescence past, as I leafed through my trusty courses of Instruction. With a generous stay of execution (i.e. a 9th term), I was hoping for a couple of cool courses to finish out my academic career...
...Contract also includes generous tax breaks for corporations, such as increased depreciation allowances. After Reagan rewrote depreciation codes for businesses, big corporations such as Boeing. DuPont and Bankers Trust were able to avoid paying federal taxes while making huge profits, but Republicans evidently believe that more businesses should enjoy this opportunity...
...University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less. They're working more," while the inflation- adjusted value of the main antipoverty programs, food stamps and AFDC, has declined by 26% between...