Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although 69 percent of students favored accepting a gift of $15,000 from PepsiCo in an Undergraduate Council survey of nearly 300 students, the results might be moot...
...Republicans, the very sources of Buchanan's strength, the red-hot positions and saw-toothed language, make a virtue of Dole's familiarity, his room-temperature manner and his gift for legislative dealing. When the Election Monitor asked which candidate had the best chance of beating Bill Clinton, Dole came out ahead. "Buchanan just sends off so many sparks," says California-based pollster Mervin Field. "If ever somebody polarized the public, it's Buchanan. He's given a new definition to the word polarizing...
After driving down the right side of the ice, Higdon let loose a wild shot that sailed wide and high. Like a gift from above, the puck found a silver of metal on the boards and bounced right back to Higdon all alone in front of the net. Higdon didn't even know what happened until his teammates yelled at him from the bench to turn around. He then picked up the gift and put it away for the final goal of the game...
While some students consider Loker Commons to be a gift from heaven, several Harvard Square restaurateurs say the new student center is sending them on a highway to hell...
...symbolism draws attention to itself through the play's title, but it becomes something of a joke by being pat and trite, like a Victorian maxim. The upstanding Lord Windemere bestows the fan on his chaste wife as a gift, but when jealousy leads her to rendezvous with Lord Darlington late at night, she leaves it lying on his table. She explicitly forgets it, and virtue, in his chambers...