But if governments want people to be more generous, can they do much about it?
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Sometimes, but not always, entrepreneurs can get more generous terms from a smaller venture capital firm.
Younger, wealthier seniors could receive smaller vouchers, while older, poorer seniors could receive more generous subsidies.
The men of Woolybucket get more generous treatment than in Ms Proulx's previous work.
Family law should give divorced women a more generous share of the couple's assets.
In fact, their program was much more generous than the one built into Obamacare.
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And post-war Britain has generally been more generous than America to its citizens on benefit.
The trajectory of America has been to become more inclusive, more generous, more tolerant.
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The Milner prize, as it will no doubt be called, is more generous, too.
That is unlikely to happen, not least because American juries tend to be more generous.
Even without higher yields, firms' more generous contributions should start whittling away at pension deficits.
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Horse-trainers have offered gentler hours, higher pay and more generous weight limits, to no avail.
The cleverer you are with your tax strategies, the more generous you can afford to be.
Only when the disarming is done will far more generous aid be on offer.
Most American states offer more generous terms for wives, but also enforce prenuptial agreements.
But more generous pension and health-care benefits risks putting a sharply increased strain on the public finances.
The self-employed face new (and more generous) rules covering the deduction of health insurance premiums they pay.
On CNN, Gladwell was a bit more generous, but the pause and the pivot are more telling.
The SNP hopes to extend state paternalism further, promising free universal childcare and more generous state pensions.
Mr Blair, along with the American administration and other friendly governments, is urging a more generous figure.
He said "it might be that a more generous transfer of legislative competence to the assembly" is needed.
We can take this further of course: German state pensions are considerably more generous than the UK system.
In either case, perhaps the boss can learn from others who are more generous in expressing their appreciation.
They will still be pretty rich, and their welfare services will remain more generous and universal than elsewhere.
Though Metacritic is used for film reviews as well, a site like Rotten Tomatoes is much more generous.
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To calm rural discontent, larger cities now offer more generous compensation, Joyce Yanyun Man of Peking University says.
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Cruyff has said in recent days that you cannot have two captains but other people are being more generous.
Instead, they competed by offering more generous fringe benefits such as health insurance.
Other companies would have been more generous with knowledge and multiple internal reviews, which might have prevented the problem.
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