Word: aid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steinbrenner now enjoys that peculiarly American brand of celebrity, which transcends a man's profession and allow a sports executive to pontificate on such issues as poverty and foreign aid. He even speaks like one of this country's manufactured celebrities. With an insincerity that would do a Las Vegas opening act proud, he called people "great guys" or "good friends of mine" at least five times...
Four hundred employees of Advent Corporation, who lost their jobs last week when the company shut down its Cambridge stereo and video production plant, will qualify for special federal financial aid for the next year...
...Carstens, director of the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, discussed the potential threat to human rights of full industrialization...
...bolster the confidence of such apprehensive allies, Defense Secretary Harold Brown left last week on a ten-day tour of the Middle East. Among other matters, he would like to seal arrangements with Saudi Arabia to provide $200 million in military aid to buttress North Yemen against any possible incursions from the pro-Moscow regime in South Yemen. The U.S. also hopes to elicit a reaffirmation of continued Saudi financial aid for Egypt. In addition, the Administration is focusing on ways to enhance U.S. ties with Riyadh. Any tangible decline in U.S.-Saudi relations might force Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...miracle year of 1905 was as astounding as its implications In fact, nothing quite like it had occurred since 1666, when New ton, at 23, had left Cambridge and taken refuge in Lincolnshire from the bubonic plague and in that isolation studied the spectrum of light, invented calculus and aid the groundwork for his universal theory of gravitation and motion...