Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While many of the programs reaching the finals involved direct humanitarian aid, six of the winners focused on more efficient public service, according to K-School reports. The Computer-Assisted Report Entry system of the St. Louis police, for example, uses computers to reduce the time necessary for filing police reports by 80 percent...
Babacar Ndiaye, president of the African Development Bank, delivered the main address and stressed the importance of international aid to Africa as it struggles with its current economic woes...
...Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, opposed even this treaty. What makes us think that he would be any more willing to compromise in the current situation on his own initiative? U.S. pressure on Israel is a prerequisite to peace. Political pressure is certainly preferable and should precede the withdrawl of aid, but I cannot disagree with the spirit of this provision...
...Huidekoper and FAS Assistant Dean Candace R. Corvey offer a different assessment, saying that because Harvard is able to solicit outside gifts for scholarships and financial aid, some students don't subsidize other students. A recent FAS fund drive that hoped to raise $24 million for scholarships ultimately reaped $37.6 million...
...things could be worse. If the FAS total expenses for the 1986-87 academic year were paid only by the 9000 students with no endowment or financial aid, each student would pay about...