Word: generous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Kerry, one of the founders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, feels the VA is not generous in other areas either. He is particularly bitter about the medical care provided: "With the amount of money they pay, they don't attract graduates from the best medical schools. There are a lot of foreign doctors in the VA hospitals as a result, which is a morale problem, if not a medical...
Auletta says that New York thought too much with its heart. The nation's highest welfare benefits, a huge public payroll, over-generous union contracts, and high taxes on businesses were all good-hearted policies, but in the long run, they drained the city of its resources. "Whether money is spent, becomes more important than how money is spent." (italics in original) Auletta says the South Bronx renewal project typifies the preoccupation with doing the charitable thing, rather than what makes sense. The federal government has offered New York money to build housing in the desolate South Bronx...
...been shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed to do the role...
...cloth. So, with a web of 16 ropes, Maui lassoed the sun. "Give me my life," pleaded Sol. "I will," replied the demigod, "if you promise to move more slowly across our sky." The sun consented, and to this day, islanders swear, its arc is longer, its rays more generous than anywhere else on earth. And ever since, Maui's mighty volcano has been known as Haleakala, House...
...expansion and left tangible results in its wake, including Holyoke Center. This time around, the bulk of the money, earmarked chiefly for the College to finance faculty salaries, student aid and academic reform, will disappear into bank accounts and endowment investments. There won't be any new buildings for generous contributors to plant their names...