Word: aid
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TEACHING FELLOWS are not chosen because of their brilliance or stellar teaching ability. Rather, they're selected because (1) Harvard graduate schools are expensive and teaching a section is a mutually beneficial form of financial aid, and (2) professors teaching large courses need a hefty number of section leaders quickly and are consequently unable to be as selective as they would otherwise want...
...cease-fire to take effect on Dec. 5. During the cease-fire, armed contras would be confined to one of three zones spread over a 4,200-sq.-mi. area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted amnesty and "may join in the political life of the nation with full enjoyment of their rights...
GMAC officials attribute the nationally declining minority MBA enrollment to several factors, including a continued lack of minority role models in management positions, decreased federal student aid and decreased minority representation at the undergraduate level...
China has a lot to gain from continuing the reforms, aside from attracting the technical aid and investment that it desperately wants. An expanding economy can only boost China's position in the world power equation. As the world financial community awaits--and fears--Hong Kong's 1997 reunification with the mainland, a constricted party role in the economy can only help calm the transition...
...demonstration, organized by a number of local social activist organizations, will demand increased government aid to the poor in the form of jobs, housing, health care, child care and welfare rights. The protest day, known as National Justice for All, will also call on presidential candidates to give more attention to poverty as a political issue...