Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twilight of Clintonism, amid the debris of divided government, the question Bradley boots up is this: Are we finally prosperous enough, generous enough, and above all trusting enough to ask the government to do anything that's big and important? And if not now, when? And if not government, working with churches and civic groups and businesses and individuals, then who? It is Bradley's challenge to every other candidate: Why should they not dare to dream heroic dreams? as Ronald Reagan once put it. And now it is their challenge to make the case that a big idea...
...marathoner: This species is distinguished by its remarkable endurance and unfortunate patterns of plumage, their lower coverings often well above the acceptable limit. These creatures will often anticipate your route, staying just in front of you, offering a generous view of their poorly concealed hindquarters. Actually maintaining this view for more than a quarter-mile results in blindness and eventually death...
Their standards for virginity, though, are generous. Almost all the students, for example, take a Clintonian approach to oral sex. "You can't get a girl pregnant by having oral sex," says Peter. "In Webster, in St. Louis, oral sex is not sex. It's just foreplay...
Rudenstine, Fineberg, Stone and the deans of Harvard's schools meet personally with particularly wealthy or generous would-be donors...
Microsoft CEO William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and President Steven A. Ballmer '77 have been very generous to their alma mater and to the trade school down the river in recent years...