Word: largesse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allow the CIA in conducting covert operations abroad? At issue was the revelation of secret payments to Jordan's King Hussein that, according to the Washington Post, began in 1957 and amounted to "millions of dollars." Carter acted decisively, ordering an immediate halt to the CIA'S largess to the King...
...third floor, the important distinctions seem to be those between younger and older workers, distinctions based on how close the worker has become to Harvard, how much she or he identifies his or her interest with the University's existence. Although this distinction may reflect Harvard's largess, the advancement an employee makes over time--maybe, too, the dependence that an aging employee develops for her employer--it is still a valid distinction. And this difference among workers illustrates the union's allegations about Harvard's paternalism as an employer...
Harvard showed its hand in the kind of strike it wanted in its dealing with those members of the University community, besides students and faculty, who wanted to work against the war. Whereas the University, in its largess, had granted students all the time they wanted to campaign against the war, they devised labyrinthine, and at times intimidating procedures for University workers to get time off. The feeling that the University was trying to create, though never stated explicitly, was that people like those who worked at Harvard (or anywhere else) were not really important in ending the war; though...