Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aid hard-core problem youngsters, Charles works assiduously to build the Prince's Trust, a charity that will aid people normally beyond the royal gaze: young ex-criminals, immigrant youths, juvenile delinquents. Thanks largely to Charles' insistence, black and white social workers, a youth and a woman are being placed among the usual Establishment elders on the board of Charles' other major benefit, the Silver Jubilee Trust...
Sidney Borowitz, a committee member, said yesterday the Overseers may recommend forming a separate committee to suggest ways to improve undergraduate education. Hanify said other possible recommendations may include more uniform financial aid for graduate students, and more involvement between teaching fellows and faculty...
...have to recognize that Santa Claus is about as far as the bottom of his little pack," as far as increased federal aid to U.S. cities is concerned, Proxmire said. In the future, he added. Congress might increase its funding to aid cities in order to keep up with or possibly slightly surpass inflation...
...order to continue to aid the improvement of U.S. cities, Proxmire suggested that the government devote more of its funds to aid low-income city residents. He said that in 1975 more federal funds were provided for high income areas of U.S. cities than low income areas--and even after members of Congress called attention to this fact, spending to high income areas still increased...
Although the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter has helped to turn the imbalance around, Proxmire said, Congress should still pass legislation to insure that at least one-third of federal aid to cities would be spent on areas seriously in need of rehabilitation