Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February of 1985, one week after his confirmation, Bennett shocked college presidents across the nation, not to mention students, by endorsing President Reagan's plan to cut federal spending for student financial aid and by suggesting that some students who would lose aid may have to consider "divestitures of certain sorts--like a stereo divestiture, an automobile divestiture, or a three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture...
Bennett then went on to alienate the higher education community even further by denouncing tuition hikes and college curricula and calling on the nation's schools to assume a greater share of the student aid burden. He continually attacked students for not paying back their federal loans and for using drugs, and he criticized their schools for allowing the classics of Western civilzation to disappear from their curricula...
...Washington, the Reagan administration said it was reviewing assistance programs to Burma that total $14 million annually to determine whether aid should be cut off in light of the coup and violence...
...however, the government faces the all but impossible tasks of distributing emergency food aid to tens of millions of people and preparing for the epidemics that are sure to follow. Already hospitals are filled with victims of flood-related diseases, and raw sewage is contaminating water supplies throughout the country. "God willing, we will not allow anybody to starve," Ershad assured his countrymen during his helicopter visits, though he later remarked to foreign journalists, "How can you feed 30 million people? But we're trying our best...
...pacing himself against California's David Wharton, 19, whose mark of 4:16.12 in the 400-meter medley is just a fraction of a second behind Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball hit me in the eye," explains the swimmer. "It caused a detached retina." Despite four eye operations, and against the advice of his doctors, Darnyi...