In Germany, which has generously subsidised renewable energy, big firms such as Siemens have stressed they will press ahead with their ambitious plans to invest in greenery in spite of the disappointing outcome at Copenhagen.

ECONOMIST: Business comes to terms with a disappointing outcome

Instead, new employees join defined-contribution schemes, which are much less generously funded.

ECONOMIST: Pensions

Only with such a wakeup call can we possibly avert the college public subsidy bubble about which Mr. Barone has generously warned.

FORBES: How to Prevent a Student Loan Debacle. And Save Education in the Process.

This year the government added a pension scheme to Oportunidades under which it contributes slightly more generously than it does to formal-sector pensions.

ECONOMIST: Working in the official economy has its drawbacks

In an official Intel technology blog written by Becky Emmett, the company defines Ultrabook specs and characteristics, which are quite precise in some cases and generously vague in others (to encourage innovation on the part of hardware OEMs like Dell and Hewlett-Packard that will bring this class of machine to market).

FORBES: Ultrabook: Is It A New Category?

Our host generously was serving a 1982 Ducru Beaucaillou, which I sipped contentedly, no guilt attached.

FORBES: My Country Fails Me, Twice

Ofqual conducted a brief inquiry, which concluded that January's GCSE English assessments were "graded generously", but the June boundaries were properly set and candidates' work properly graded.

BBC: GCSEs row: Legal action a step closer

Exams watchdog Ofqual conducted an inquiry into the fiasco, which concluded that January's GCSE English assessments were "graded generously" but the June boundaries were properly set and candidates' work properly graded.

BBC: Thousands of pupils to resit English GCSEs