Word: aid
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...recommendations came from U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, architect of the Administration's controversial zero-tolerance program, which briefly made headlines with the seizure of huge yachts found to be carrying minute amounts of drugs. Some suggestions are mild -- withholding some federal aid from states that fail to adopt strict antidrug policies. Others are radical -- flooding the market with "benign pseudo drugs" to confuse users. Says Von Raab: "The American people are going to have to suffer some inconvenience in order to win this...
...just a prettier but a healthier and better place if more people joined them in the out-of-doors. There is some theory to this: the smell of basil was long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while...
...strategy he devised to pressure IP is vintage Rogers. He is enlisting the aid of other unions, thus turning one company's dispute into a national issue. He is leading consumer boycotts, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns against companies who have directors who also sit on IP's board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking...
Like most places that provide assistance for the poor, the Legal Aid Society's Park Place office in Manhattan is overwhelmed. Flooded with requests for help, the 26 lawyers who work there resort to a kind of triage system, sometimes choosing to block an eviction before untangling a Social Security foul-up, or rushing to counter an immigration problem while other clients wait for assistance in getting welfare benefits. "We just don't have the money or the staffing to do it all," says Attorney Morton Dicker...
Last week, in a move that could help resuscitate the pro bono cause, the legal world's No. 1 revenue earner announced an extraordinary program to encourage lawyers to give legal aid to the needy. As a supplement to the time that its lawyers volunteer, the New York City megafirm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom will establish a $10 million legal fellowship program to place 125 new law school graduates with legal-aid groups around the country over the next five years. "This fellowship is a further way for us to demonstrate that large law firms are concerned about...