Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been apparent to me for a number of months. I knew they were well over the goal when I made my last major gift," said Sidney R. Knafel '52, who has given about $27 million to Harvard over the course of the campaign...
...White House, this is all a galloping gift horse. Which is not to say that President Clinton is any better at the thrift thing. But this GOP majority is up against a President with a proven gift for making the Republicans look like coldhearted cowards. "Clinton's effectively raiding Social Security as well," says Dickerson. "They're both way over. But Clinton's doing it in ways like clean-water legislation and education that should be very easy for him to demagogue...
...their stereotypes about the bigoted homophobes in military barracks. But they can't erase the fact that the men and women in the armed services hold their lives out to us each and every day and say "here, this is for you and your freedom." It's a precious gift that should be treated like gold. Can we give it nothing more than indifference and contempt...
Four years into the campaign, in June 1998, the library fund was at only 44 percent of its goal--despite Katherine B. Loker's $17 million jumpstart gift in spring...
...loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits for the funny line that rarely arrives...