Word: largesse
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...want Harvard to divest of holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. Unlike the majority, we want to make our point through rallies and demonstrations and debates rather than by withholding money. Such tight-fistedness would hurt primarily current and future students, who depend on alumni largess to subsidize the cost of a Harvard education. Refusing to contribute is just single-issue politics in an indirect and probably ineffective from...
Harvard reached the five-minute extra period mostly at the largess of the Big Red's Larry Oeding, who chose to miss the second of two free throws with two seconds remaining in regulation time...
...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...