Word: generous
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...vacation." Kilimanjaro National Park charges an entrance fee of about $150 a person for the climb, which begins at park headquarters in Marangu, Tanzania. For the guides, porters and food for the five-day trek, Marangu's two hotels charge an additional $250 a person. And don't forget generous gratuities. Money is constantly on the minds of the porters, who see each climb as a test of how large a tip they can extract from their clients ("Bwana, give me your boots when we finish our safari"). These young members of the Wachagga tribe, who spend much...
This premise of Leader of the Band suggests why Fay Weldon, 55, remains an engaging outsider among the generous circle of contemporary feminist writers. Her twelve previous novels feature a number of heroines unsettlingly prone to confirming male stereotypes about the opposite sex. These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms. Having achieved some measure of independence or success, they are likely to throw everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only...
...credence to that view last week, when it reported that U.S. retail sales climbed a meager 0.4% in April, far below the 1%-to-2% gain many economists had expected. The feeble growth would have been weaker but for a jump in car sales that reflected the most generous incentives ever offered by Detroit, including interest-free loans...
...Jones he wanted the church to be "not much better than a barn." "Well, then! You shall have the handsomest barn in England," Jones answered, and produced it. He never delegated a design or failed to transform what he copied. He thought -- and drew -- in terms of large volumes, generous spaces, exalted plainness relieved by lucid, ingenious detailing. Later Georgian architects would owe him an immense debt. He was the father of English classicism...
Despite those generous words, however, Washington's aid is largely symbolic and does not signal a new, comprehensive policy toward Eastern Europe. For example, Bush promised to push for reduced import duties on certain Polish products, but the goods covered under the President's pledge amount to as little as $3.5 million out of a total of more than $400 million in Polish exports to the U.S. And loans of some $500 million from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have yet to be approved...