Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brigade of disabled workers and people handicapped from birth parked their wheelchairs outside the hearing room in the Sacramento capitol in a quiet plea that their welfare aid not be reduced. Leaders of powerful police and fire fighters' lobbies jammed the committee chamber. So did the state's influential teacher and school lobbyists. Committee Member Leo McCarthy, speaker of the state assembly, passed up so many meals as the deadline neared that he had a severe allergic reaction to energy-sustaining almonds and had to be temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college...
...committee finally tied together a package of first-year emergency aid that will considerably soften the impact of Proposition 13. The solution was swiftly approved by the full legislature and signed into law by a pleased Brown, whose own relief plan had been only slightly modified. In a televised address to Californians, he declared: "Proposition 13 creates challenges, it creates problems, but it creates an opportunity to make government in California a model for people all over the country...
...appearances on talk shows and speaking at rallies. Ahead lies a bitter fight against the feminists' drive to win an extension of the amendment's deadline. Vows Schlafly: "We will bury ERA on March 22, 1979." Her opponents claim that she is using the ERA issue to aid her own career, but she denies having further ambitions for political office. Still, given her record, she seems unlikely to retire to hearth and home...
...determining whether the Sadat initiative can be rescued and Sadat can survive politically. For the second year in a row, an international financial consortium made up of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and several European countries has agreed to a multibillion-dollar aid package covering Egypt's foreign-currency needs. Though that will allow Sadat to import enough wheat to keep his people fed, they still hunger for the peace-borne prosperity he has led them to expect. Says one White House official: "If we can't get the negotiations process restarted...
University officials replied at the time that although they hoped more financially-oriented candidates would be elected to the board, and in turn aid in Harvard's fundraising efforts, there had been no "rigging" of the election...