Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sissela Bok, lecturer on medical ethics at the Medical School, will speak about "the ethical dimensions of truthfulness and lying" in the four lectures she will deliver March 1, 2, 8 and 9 to benefit the Radcliffe Seminars Grant-In-Aid fund...
...chief impact of the human rights policy has occurred not in the Communist world but in developing countries, where the U.S. dispenses largesse and therefore has leverage. The principal instruments for applying pressure are Public Law-480 food aid, grants from the Agency for International Development, military aid and bank loans-all told, nearly $10 billion annually...
Virtually every aid proposal within the State Department is routed through a newly created Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That unit is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Patricia Derian, 49, a combative and articulate civil rights activist from Mississippi. Derian has traveled to 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe to explain Administration policy and inspect local conditions. She and eight deputies make sure that the human rights performance of every would-be recipient of U.S. aid is taken into account before a grant, loan or sale is approved...
...With the aid of his backers, Ali apprenticed under Trainer Angelo Dundee, a skilled groomer of fighters. Dundee recalls: "The Louisville group wanted me to train him. I told them to send him down to Miami after Christmas. Twenty minutes later, I get a call telling me Ali wasn't waiting till after Christmas, he was coming right away. They told me he said, 'I don't want to wait for Christmas. I want to fight.' That's how it all started in October...
...little video equipment at Carpenter Center that is still serviceable is now used once or twice a year as a research aid for 16 mm production. But there are now no classes in video offered, and students are not allowed to use the department's equipment for tutorials or independent study...