Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor guard and a brass band were on hand at Peking airport to meet Mondale, his wife Joan and daughter Eleanor, 19, at the start of the seven-day visit. The Chinese were expecting that months of diplomatic courtship on both sides finally would be followed by tangible aid from the U.S. The Vice President did not disappoint them...
...Organizations from the.B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League to the Council on Interracial Books for Children all pushed for revisions of textbook passages they considered demeaning. Even poor Squanto was taken to task by the Interracial Books people because by helping the Pilgrims, he had given aid and comfort to a foreign invader...
Buoyed by price rebates that appear to be boosting car sales, Chrysler Corp. chiefs are expected this week to give Treasury Secretary G. William Miller their promised plan of sacrifice and salesmanship for the company's survival. As a gesture to a Government from which they are requesting aid and a union from which they want concessions, Chrysler's two top executives announced last week that they are becoming $1-a-year...
Business leaders in other fields cheer Chrysler's off-the-mat selling drive, but many oppose federal aid. True, a number agree with Zenith Chairman John Nevin, who argues, "I don't think you can casually stand aside and watch a company the size of Chrysler go down. You have to calculate the cost of Chrysler going under and ask if it is worth something to prevent that." But many more echo Clarence Barksdale, chairman of the First National Bank in St. Louis: "If you have any belief in the free-enterprise system, you have to let weak...
...when Congress debates the case for federal aid, legislators are likely to listen less to business skeptics than to the auto union, Chrysler suppliers and politicians from states in which the company has operations. Many have been lobbying hard for Chrysler. Whatever the economic merits or demerits of aid, the decision probably will be made on grounds of saving jobs and winning votes...