Word: generous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
...Over the years, I have known him as a very generous colleague, well thought-of, a major contributor to African-American history, a distinguished historian, a grand intellect, an international treasure. The loss is immeasurable...
Benjamin is equally ungraceful, and her character is a dancer, She wobbles in high heels, is painfully unflexible when she stretches and moves awkwardly through the all-too-generous stage space. Anna is supposed to be a fragile artist who feels deeply. Onstage, however, she is little more than vapid. Her love scenes with Burton or Pale are universally devoid of sexual energy, and the eventual fade-out to tinny music is welcome...
...means abolishing the middle-class welfare state that is hidden in the tax code. Tax breaks for employer-sponsored pension and health benefits cost the government far more than direct government spending on the poor. The home mortgage interest deduction costs far more than government housing subsidies. Yet these generous subsidies go practically unnoticed because no checks are written...
...cheaper for all of us. Just like any other subsidy, favorable tax treatment artificially stimulates demand for a product and increases the price of that product. Were it not for the T and E deduction, restaurants would be cheaper for everyone, including those of us who don't enjoy generous expense accounts...