Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attract attention to their plight, contingents of angry farmers went to Washington. They drove tractors up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. They set loose chickens and goats on Capitol Hill. They lobbied in the Capitol's halls, scaring a few citified Congressmen with their passionate pleas for federal aid. Finally, they got their bill to the floors of both congressional chambers...
Pinochet originally ridiculed any suggestion of Chilean military involvement in the killing. But the U.S. continued to demand that the two suspects be interrogated-and threatened cuts in U.S. aid. The general promised full cooperation and later forced the head of the military police, General Manuel Sepulveda, to resign...
Cutting the federal budget is an alternative that Washington is not yet vigorously pursuing; right now all the pressures are to add a billion here and there. Nonetheless, there are ideas, of widely varying reasonableness. Some conservatives would shrink foreign aid, welfare, Social Security benefits. Alan Greenspan suggests reducing expenditures for public service employment of the jobless, a most dubious economy. Rudolph Penner, director of tax policy studies of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, more sensibly would pare the roughly $68 billion in federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments, many of which...
Government aid to U.S. colleges and universities-mostly student loans, research grants and special-program funds-now totals an impressive $15 billion a year. Yet more and more educators, administrators and trustees are biting the hand that feeds them. Their complaints range from excessive paperwork to inflexible regulations. But the one that is voiced most emphatically concerns Washington's growing influence over higher education. Says Robert Durkee of the Association of American Universities: "We may be nearing a point where the Government will be making decisions that universities should be making...
...Radcliffe. These disparities could just as easily hurt men as women. The University needs a firm policy on the allocation of work-study funds in the summer to prevent Radcliffe's woes of last summer. Some sort of permanent job program must be developed for students on financial aid from either school who can not get work-study jobs. Most important, administrators must make careful analyses of data from different programs for undergraduates to determine who is affected and how by each program. This will insure that different offices will not walk over someone who they do not know...