Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian history. The same nation that bowed down to Joseph Stalin also produced fearless spokesmen for freedom like Andrei Sakharov. Today, for the first time, democracy is of concern to a large number of people, not just a small group of dissidents. Long used to viewing freedom as a gift to be bestowed from on high, ordinary citizens have begun to make their own decisions, decide their own fates. Many, perhaps most, have found the experience shocking and unpleasant, but many others now hold dear their independence. The events of the past decade have enlarged freedom's circle too much...
...timing of when Harvard will actually receive the money is uncertain because John Loeb set aside part of his estate as a deferred gift...
...staff gladly compliments the administration where no compliment is due. Loker Commons was never meant to be a for-profit restaurant, nor could it be under what we assume to be the charitable nature of the gift of Katherine Bogdanovich Loker. Harvard deserves no congratulations for complying with local laws which seek to protect Cambridge's tax base of profitable businesses...
...preach crusades in towns too small for Billy. Franklin, newly born again, had given testimony at several of White's revivals, and Billy reportedly took notice. White remembers a conversation one day in the early 1980s: "You know, Franklin can communicate," the father said. "I think he has the gift of evangelism, but I'm not the one to get him to start. Could you do something?" In November 1983 White finally coaxed Franklin out in front of a crowd of 1,000 in Saskatoon. It was a disaster. "You can't be tentative and feeble and be an evangelist...
...first time, hugged him and told him he was proud of him. In September Franklin preached in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the audience was his older sister, Anne Graham Lotz, herself an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who had inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift. Afterward, Lotz told Business North Carolina magazine, she embraced her brother, looked him in the eye, and said, "Franklin, the mantle is passed...