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Word: gifting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Penthouse is not a family publication: last week publisher BOB GUCCIONE took steps to evict his son and former employee Anthony from the apartment in which he'd been living since 1987. Anthony, who worked for Penthouse's parent company until 1997, claims his Manhattan loft was a gift from his father for graduating from Harvard and joining the family business. But a judge backed Guccione the elder, saying the apartment's stock certificate had never been transferred to Anthony and he had no legal claim to it. Looks as if Guccione pere, who is also estranged from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Last week Fasano announced she had agreed to surrender custody of her black son to the black couple, pending the final results of a DNA test. A mother was giving up a son whom she had borne and whom she loves; another woman was receiving the gift of life. Two couples who had separately made the decision to undergo the invasive procedures of modern reproductive medicine and place their faith in the hands of all-too-fallible infertility experts are now permanently joined together, their private lives public, their sons forever brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If My Test-Tube Babies Were Swapped in the Lab? | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Fisher, also a GSE graduate, gave a gift of $1 million toward the professorship last year...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSE Alumna Endows First Chair Honoring African-American Woman | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

...care about the well-being of their overworked and over-stressed students. But maybe the departments do care after allain the form of party loot. >=We do have a fund that is dedicated to happiness in a broad sense,=It was set up in 1956 with a gift from the Irving Street Club, Inc. to aaid in the social and recreational life of...students specializing in chemistry, including undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. =sometimes up to a couple of thousand dollars,=a commitment to making life in the department as enjoyable as possible, given of course that people...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Work Hard, Play Hard | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...relieved to have won this "enormous gift" for the work, The Best Years of Their Lives.The book follows the lives of six Freehold, N.J. men through World War II and then their return home to create--and partially lose--a sense of community in the postwar years...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Three Authors Win Lukas Prize | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

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