Word: aid
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Kraus said the tuition and fees for a GSAS student this year total $5500 and the estimate minimum budget including housing and food for one year adds $4800 to that sum. He added that 75 per cent of GSAS students receive some form of financial aid...
Under Carter's plan the government would provide aid to households with incomes falling below 12.5 per cent of the federal poverty level. Based on the present poverty level, families with incomes up to $8,950 a year would be eligible for benefits...
Boggs says that the person who objects to federal aid on the grounds that Chrysler has not made enough sacrifices or because the company bears much of the blame for its own downfall "is a much less difficult problem than someone who has a philosophical objection" to a federal bail-out of a particular company. "We'll just show them the consequences to the government if it doesn't choose to help Chrysler," he said...
...what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan of recovery. President Carter, worried about recession and unemployment, agreed with Miller...
...HILL, there was substantial sympathy for some form of aid. Worried about jobs and competition in the auto industry, some liberals saw the Chrysler failure as an opportunity for the government to take control of a major auto corporation, which could be used to keep the other companies honest. Some, like Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.), who has more than 85,000 constituents employed by Chrysler, were just plainworried by the prospect of a rash of plant closings...