Word: largesse
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...Your story is a cogent and objective presentation of a complex subject. But under no circumstances can the National Farmers Organization be classed as rightist. Neither is the N.F.O. loath to accept government direction or largess...
...mosques and schools. He left an estimated $800 million, though the young Aga Khan warns, "You can't count hospitals-they're an expense, not a profit." Since his grandfather willed him the title three years ago, the Aga Khan's principal job has been dispensing largess. Inevitably, he must turn down far more requests than he grants. In Pakistan, he inaugurated a housing project as a step toward his goal of "a house for every Ismaili family." At Punjab University, he set up five scholarships abroad, but he rejected a student demand...
...made money on barbed wire and risked as much as $150,000 a night at the faro table. Some of the inheritance Baker invested in profitable local real estate, e.g., a bank, the Baker Hotel. The bulk he put to work helping his home town. Samples of his largess...
...most Western oilmen ENI's largess was a power play to crash Italy into the big leagues of Middle East oil. Probably no major Western company will be as free-handed in future contracts with oil-rich Iran. Even so, the ENI deal is a significant break in the fifty-fifty pattern. The government will press for NIOC participation in future oil deals...
...somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance man who was one of George Craig's first political backers. A wise politician, Kidd decided to let others share the largess. Among the men that he selected was Republican State Senator Wesley Malone, a Clinton insurance man, one of the two original sponsors of the toll road plan. Said Malone, who got a $1,600 check as his share of the commission: "I don't feel like I was bought...