Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barry administration has had an extremely shoddy record of municipal administration. The city's ambulance service casually arrives 20 minutes late at the scene of car accidents and heart attacks. A loan program designed to aid poor families in meeting mortagage payments has mainly gone to aid middle-class families, including members of the Barry administration--most of whom could handily afford the payments...
...State, looking for a better quality of life, and went into business for himself as a gardener. His income has ranged between $10,000 and $20,000. Last year Billy bought a house in a rural area for $43,000, a purchase made possible by his father's financial aid: Bob put up the down payment of $11,000. Billy too is looking for a job on the waterfront, where the $11 hourly wage and full benefits will go a lot further toward supporting his four children. But such jobs are so scarce, he says, that...
...index of the athletic pharmacopoeia is long and gets longer. Rare and expensive human-growth hormone can, some say, turn children into massive competitive machines and aid muscle growth in adults. Stories circulate about puberty suppressants that allow gymnasts to keep their finely balanced girlish bodies. But no drugs pose as much of a threat to the fairness and legitimacy of athletic competition as anabolic steroids do. And as the Johnson scandal shows, nothing has so obscured the efforts of honest athletes or has contributed as much shame to the Games...
...White House created a Washington-based task force of more than 100 investigators to probe reports of servicemen missing in Southeast Asia. For its part, Hanoi views the MIA issue as its strongest lever for establishing diplomatic relations with the U.S. and thereby gaining desperately needed economic aid. "What else do we have?" asks a Foreign Ministry official...
...earlier agreed to withdraw 72 F-16 fighters from Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid, and will probably abandon the base. Under the new pact, Spain is giving up all the guarantees of specific levels of U.S. aid contained in previous bases agreements. Last year military aid alone came to $400 million...