Word: generous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a very generous option that Nicaragua is proposing," he said. "They have a choice. We are not going to continue declaring a cease-fire as long as this means that we cease and they fire...
Through social events and visits to localHarvard Clubs by prominent administrators andfaculty, the association does much of the workrequired to maintain a loyal--and generous--groupof alumni...
There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck. Federico II Gonzaga's court was a secular one; not even his tamest eulogists could have called the Duke pious. He was, however, brave, generous, greedy, obsessed with his own virtu (which meant prowess, not virtue) and determined to go down in history for his martial skills, his classical learning and his devotion to all vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved...
Shad Hall is named in honor of the generous John S.R. Shad, who donated $20 million to the B-School in 1987 "to fund a new ethics program," (The Crimson, October 17). Well, John, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The B-School's ethics haven't changed. "Screw your neighbor" still dominates administrative policy...
...three-year contract that the machinists rejected offered pay raises of 4% in the first year and 3% in each of the next two, bonus payments of 8% the first year and 3% the second, improved health benefits and a 20% cutback in mandatory overtime. Boeing considered the offer "generous," said spokesman Russell Young. But union official Jack Daniels of District 751 in Seattle dismissed it as "peanuts," pointing to Boeing's profit of $614 million in 1988 and $356 million in the first half of this year...