Word: joy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...role models range from billionaire philanthropist George Soros to octogenarian Oseola McCarty, the Mississippi washerwoman who gave $150,000 to pay for scholarships at a local college. And, says Turner, he draws inspiration from A Christmas Carol ("the greatest book on giving I ever read") and the joy Scrooge finds when he finally adopts a more charitable attitude toward the Cratchit family...
...didn't even have any homework. On the early morning of Sunday the 14th-arguably the last day of leisure before the grind of schoolwork began-Harvard students were living it up at several parties down by the River. But the joy was short-circuited. Four parties, in Adams, Kirkland, Leverett and Winthrop Houses were broken up between midnight and 1 a.m. by Harvard police on request from tutors in the houses...
...Garbutt, Declan Hunt-Joy of Movement Center...
...speech continued it became more pointed. She asked, "Do you do enough to make sure your parents, in the old people's homes, feel your love? Do you bring them each day your joy and caring?" The baby boomers in the audience began to shift in their seats. And she continued. "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion," she said, and then she told them why, in uncompromising terms. For about 1.3 seconds there was complete silence, then applause built and swept across the room. But not everyone: the President and the First Lady, the Vice...