Word: aid
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Harvard education experts trace the lack ofminorities in higher education to the decliningnumber of Blacks and Hispanics attending college.They say that cuts in federal aid to students,increasing tuition costs and insufficientrecruiting efforts have prompted the presentcrisis...
Bush's refusal to consider new taxes is accompanied by support for a balanced-budget amendment, proposals for increased federal aid to education, and a refusal to specify where deep cuts could be made. Taken together, these positions are incoherent. Bush's only independent proposal is a plan to cut the top capital-gain levy from 28% to 15%. Supposedly that would eventually . spur investments, but it would probably reduce Government revenues initially, according to the Treasury Department. More broadly, Bush has not answered the most basic questions about his own economic philosophy. Until he became an acolyte of "voodoo...
...peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White House request for $270 million in fresh contra aid, the Reagan Administration is now talking of delaying its pitch until January...
...Manila alone, some 50 killings have been attributed to the sparrows this year. The N.P.A. had threatened to target American personnel after the U.S. announcement of increased military aid to Manila following the August coup attempt. Indeed, the guerrillas boasted that they would kill one American for each of the ten armored personnel carriers that the Reagan Administration delivered to the Aquino government last week. U.S. military officials ordered service members and their families at both Clark and the Subic Bay naval base to restrict travel outside the camps to essential trips and to avoid using side roads...
...most mentally ill people, who suffer to a lesser degree, are just as needy of aid as those on the street. Just as bright and talented as the non-mentally ill, their contribution to society is stymied by their illness. College educated mentally ill languish in their destructive thoughts--not working, not getting out of the house, not really living...