Word: giver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even a piece of college furniture has a price tag, for folks with big hearts but small bank accounts. A check for $10,000 will buy a carrel in the refurbished University of California, Berkeley, law library at Boalt Hall, which will open in 1994. A Princeton University giver can get his or her name engraved on the back of a chapel pew for $5,000. At Spelman, $10,000 to $15,000 will pay for a decorative fountain. The University of Houston's College of Optometry sells cushioned seats and desks at $300 a pop for its continuing-education...
...post-election New York Times editorial, Anthony Lewis called Kinnock's record "historical baggage," writing that "perhaps it will just take time, and a new party leader to giver Labor the modern look of a European social democratic party...
...does Central America and Peaceand I don't know what-all. This is Carol, who doeswomen's issues, and Barbara, who handles unions."Two aides sit studying an architectural drawing;one is saying "And he doesn't want co-ax drapedall through the fucking house either. This guy isa giver, and the boss says the job has to betight...
...WARMISH--and then coldish and later rainyish--autumn afternoon, I put on my one pair of comfortable shorts and a T-shirt and marched over to the MAC. I flashed ID, went up to the boxing office on the third floor and met Tommy Rawson: boxing coach, octagenarian and giver of wisdom. I introduced myself...
Bessie, the care giver, connects tenderly with her harsher sister's teenage sons, one a powder keg of anger who burned down his neighborhood, the other a bespectacled Milquetoast who perpetually retreats into a book. She also has a wonderful speech recalling her only romantic love, a carnival worker who drowned before her eyes when a partying crowd onshore mistook his desperate pleas for habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall...