Word: aid
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...mercy of a Supreme Court that will interpret equality as it sees fit," says Friedan. Feminists feel the court opened the floodgates to unfair treatment of female students when in February 1984 the Justices $ defanged a law that could be used to stop all federal aid to a school if sex discrimination was shown in any of its education programs, including sports. Legislation that would effectively restore a broad application of the law is before the Senate...
...have tried to ease the impact of divestiture by making farewell investments in social programs. Coke pledged to spend $10 million during the next five years to fund a foundation to assist education and development among South Africa's "disadvantaged." IBM left $10 million for a literacy program to aid 37,000 black schoolchildren. Many companies that divested their South African holdings had been setting aside some of their earnings for social services, but some of their successors have refused to take on those commitments...
...along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does not wish to risk a serious breach with the U.S., its main supplier of arms and vital economic aid...
...Hall told it, she saw her boss taking documents out of a safe and feeding them into the office shredder. She went to his aid, dropping "12, 15, 18 pages" at a time into the machine. Lieut. Colonel Robert Earl, a North aide, contributed his own secret messages. Ever helpful, she asked North whether she should destroy telephone logs and her copies of computer messages too. Yes, he said. But didn't she know what she was destroying? a committee lawyer asked. "I really didn't notice, sir," she replied frostily. "I was just purely doing...
...that he knew anything about the diversion of weapons profits to the contras. But the crucial question of exactly what Reagan knew has not been answered in the hearings. When the scandal broke, he downplayed his role in soliciting support for the contras while the congressional ban against U.S. aid was in effect. After McFarlane testified that Reagan had talked with Saudi Arabia's King Fahd about contra assistance, the President acknowledged playing a larger part. Then, last week in Venice, he backtracked again, telling reporters, "I told you all the truth that first day after everything...