Word: robin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That gave Bloom an idea: Why not distribute this money to poor people? After consulting with department lawyers, Bloom decided to play Robin Hood. He gave $1 million each to the Salvation Army, the National Conference of Catholic Charities, the National Council of Churches and the Council of Jewish Federations, all of whom help needy, handicapped and elderly people to pay their fuel bills. Says Bloom: "I realized that certain consumers of heating oil, especially those without lawyers and lobbyists, would be frozen out. These are the people least able to compete in the claims process. It seemed like...
There was Boston College forward Robin Monleon with a flashy wrist shot at the nine-minute mark of the opening period. There were the last minute rushes by Eagles Billy O'Dwyer, Mark Switaj, Bobby Hehir and Gary Sampson at the crazy close of the second period. There was Switaj's sneaky flip-shot off a screen just into the third stanza. There was Eagle defenseman Mark Murphy's slapshot from the left point nine minutes into the third. There was Hehir 50 seconds later sweeping in on the Harvard net. There was the puck that landed on the back...
...Robin Berrington, outgoing U.S. embassy press attache in Ireland, in a letter that outraged the Irish when it accidentally found its way into the Irish Times: "Ireland has food and climate well matched for each other-dull. [As a post it is] small potatoes...
...poor will fare best, Gilder says, in a vibrant economy in which low tax rates spur investment and speed the creation of new jobs. He unabashedly touts a Robin Hood-in-reverse creed: "To help the poor and middle classes, one must cut the tax rates of the rich." Gilder argues that only the rich have enough capital to stimulate rapid economic growth, and only reasonable tax rates can induce them to invest rather than spend their money in unproductive ways...
...addition to the display, various Picasso specialists will speak at a symposium on February 21, William Robin, director of the department of paintings and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in New York, Robert Rosenblum, professor of modern European art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Jean Sutherland Boggs, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Theodore Reff, professor of art history at Columbia University, and Leo Steinberg, professor of art at the University of Pennsylvania, will each discuss his original research on Picasso...