Word: largesse
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Harvard converted on the next play, thanks again to the largess of the Yale defense, which coughed up a ten-yard holding penalty. And then came the reverse...
...real problems, though, come in figuring how to pay for this largess. To begin with, Dole is siding with supply-side economic theorists--whom he once derided--and their argument that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...
...astounding $150,000. Facing life's end, she has decided to give the money to a scholarship fund for black students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Inspired by her example, Hattiesburg business leaders have pitched in an additional $150,000. The first beneficiary of McCarty's largess has "adopted" her, and vows to help the heroine through her frail and lonely...
This approach reflects a new shift in thinking, a more pragmatic approach, one which differs from the hard-core liberal notion of obligatory largess to the disempowered. This approach is also more politically acceptable, which is often a prerequisite to gaining popular support for a legislative measure...
...they know. But what once was praised as "constituent service" these days also goes by the name of "pork." An unusual number of voters in eastern Washington State -- and in the districts of other powerful Democrats across America -- claim that they are looking beyond the local benefits of federal largess and pondering what it's costing the country to have 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators each forcing the government to keep open another unnecessary hospital or sleepy agency office or subsidy program for well-to-do ranchers. Like other voters around the country, Foley's constituents are questioning whether their...