Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the Soviets theoretically could have embraced Marshall's program of aid, a decision which would have changed dramatically the course of current super power relations...
...Marshall Plan today is commonly referred to whenever talk surfaces of lending U.S. aid to support a foreign economy. However, most scholars and former statesmen agree with Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffmann, who says that while the Plan was "one of the best initiatives of the U.S.," it does not have "a hell of a lot of relevance for today...
Mater notes that the notion of applying a Marshall Plan in a Third World context would be misguided. "Development aid is different from the Marshall Plan was because you don't have the infra-structure [already in place]. You can't go into Sierra Leone or Bangladesh and do that," he says...
...Harvard's main concern is with state scholarship aid and fellowship programs, a cause for which Harvard actively lobbys for both in the state and nationally. Earlier this year Harvard invited freshman state legislators to a lunch to push for more student aid...
State Rep. Nicholas A. Paleologos (D-Woburn), chairman of the House Education Committee, considered Harvard's proposal for a $25 million dollar increase in scholarship aid this year, and it will be debated before the legislature this summer...