Clark left generous gifts to charity and to two of her nurses, but questions have been raised about her mental capacity.

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The Boston study expects the rich to hand out even more generous gifts if estate taxes are phased out, as the Bush administration's recent tax reform intends.

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The program will also include one of the most generous gifts the company has received in the wake of Sandy: a new work, "From the Grammar of Dreams, " created and donated by choreographer Luca Veggetti.

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Although these companies still pass most of their revenue to the government, they can keep a commission of 4%-5%, and staff appear to receive generous gifts from the growing number of Chinese companies competing for their business, she said.

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Their investigation found that bundled gifts (a main gift and a stocking stuffer) were viewed as less generous than unaccompanied gifts (just the main gift).

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This time the prevailing view was that clients should avoid the gift tax altogether by taking full advantage of the generous exemption for lifetime gifts.

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The persuasion includes the promise of generous compensation for countries that Iraq has been assiduously wooing with gifts of cheap oil and thoughts of future, lucrative contracts.

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One slight surprise is that coastal elites actually appear to be a little more generous than those in fly-over country, in that they spend nearly 30% more on gifts.

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"They've brought gifts because there are people who are homeless, there are asylum seekers and they are always very generous, these children, and that goes to the heart of what Christmas is all about, " he said.

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