Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soros' pot of gold make a difference? His gift will target some of the most intractable problems Russia faces. Soros, who has amassed a $5 billion personal fortune trading currencies and given $1.5 billion to humanitarian projects worldwide, so far has only vague ideas about who gets the Russia money. One initiative--to "preserve what is good in Russian education" and "reform what was too authoritarian"--appears overly ambitious and may have little effect on the country's vast school system...
...view of the size of the gift, Moscow seemed almost ungrateful. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his top aides were silent after Soros' announcement. The Kremlin has been leery of appearing to be too close to the 67-year-old financier, who has more than $2.5 billion worth of business investments in Russia. Soros' currency speculation has come under fire in other parts of the world. Russian communists and nationalists have been irritated because some of his charities promote free press and market reforms...
They come from the North Country and they are bringing the gift of a first game to the confines of Bright Hockey Center...
...Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who has traveled to China to lecture at Drexel's sister school there, presented Jiang with a parting gift. As Weldon described the dual importance of cultivating the mind and the body, he pulled out a white and orange Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey with Jiang's name in black...
...dream (not products) to thousands of would-be Marthas. Sure, we'd like to do all of the "good things" she tells us about, but those of us who shop at K Mart can't spend $10 on a cookie cutter or dedicate an entire room to storing gift wraps. Nor do we have a barn out back that we can quickly convert into a room to seat 32 guests for dinner. Yes, I watch Stewart's programs and read her magazine occasionally; then I go to K Mart and try to find a cheap alternative to the ideas...