• Dixons's Freeserve enjoys a special advantage that Libertysurf will have to do without: a generous cut of the increased telephone bills.

    ECONOMIST: Trawling for surfers

  • Refinancing applications jumped 30 percent last week, to more than double the rate we had last fall, saving the average homeowner hundreds of dollars a month -- the equivalent of a generous tax cut.

    WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

  • Solar shares fell some 32% on the NEX in the first quarter of the year and have suffered again in recent weeks, a drop that Prideaux blames on proposals in Germany and Spain to cut generous feed-in tariffs that oblige utilities to buy renewable electricity at above market prices.

    CNN: The smart money's on green

  • No matter the temperature, the cake is so pretty it should be cut at the table, so bring it out on a platter and cut it into generous wedges using a serrated knife and a sawing motion.

    NPR: Recipe: Devil's Food White-Out Cake

  • And in recent months there have been widespread fears over company pensions, as increasing numbers of employers have cut back contributions or closed generous final salary schemes.

    BBC: NAPF logo

  • In fact, the IFS notes: "no earners have been taken out of the direct tax net" by this generous (not to mention expensive) tax cut.

    BBC: Fiscal choices from IFS

  • In a bizarre but not unexpected role reversal, Democrats insist that at a time of economic uncertainty, Congress must not only extend this tax cut but make it even more generous.

    FORBES: Payroll Tax Holiday: Better Than Nothing, But Still Not Very Good

  • The rake of the auditorium seating is just as generous, and the stained-plywood walls cut into loosely rearranged jigsaw pieces shade pleasantly from honey hues at the back to dark mahogany at the stage's edge, a playful spatial echo of the houselights dimming.

    WSJ: Frank Gehry | Pershing Square Signature Center | By Julie V. Iovine

  • The Senate budget would also cut taxes a bit by extending relatively generous rules for refundable credits such as the earned income and child tax credit.

    FORBES: Senate Budget's Bad Math: Axing Tax Breaks For Rich, Big Business Isn't Enough

  • It was confirmed Monday when Medicare bowed to political pressure and reversed a cut in payments to private insurers under a generous government program known as Medicare Advantage.

    FORBES: No Sequester for Corporations

  • Norway, too, has cut the duration of unemployment benefits (to a still-generous three years).

    ECONOMIST: Remodelling Scandinavia

  • For every one wealthy estate facing a less-generous estate tax exemption, thousands of middle-class families will receive a tax cut that will help them save, invest, and one day own an estate of their own.

    CNN: Clinton's October 9, 2007 speech on retirement security

  • Still, with ex-presidents able to command eye-popping sums for books, speaking engagements and the like in their post-White House years, the report raises questions about whether the U.S. should provide such generous subsidies at a time when spending cuts and the deficit are forcing lawmakers and federal agencies to seek ways to cut back.

    WSJ: Taxpayer shell out nearly $3.7M for ex-presidents

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