Word: aid
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Harvard officials still have a lot of work in store for them. They say that although the most recent budgetary battles have been won, dangerous problems exist in federal funding for scientific research and student financial aid...
Coming out of the 350th Anniversary Celebration and a successful $359 million campaign, Bok is at a crossroads in his presidency. He is firmly established as one the leading figures in American higher education--the first according to U.S. News & World Report--and has lobbied extensively for student financial aid in Washington...
Sharing the stage in Tercentenary Theatre at the 296th Commencement with such honorands as T. S. Eliot '10 and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the former general unveiled a policy for reconstructing the European nations, devastated by the ravages of World War II. He pledged a commitment of U.S. aid to all European nations in order to combat "hunger, poverty, degeneration and chaos...
While the aid was offered to all European nations--including Soviet bloc countries--it was contingent upon each country committing itself to working with each other country, virtually precluding participation by countries under Stalin's control, according to the scholars...
...adds that by requiring all the nations to agree to work together in order to get U.S. aid, the Marshall Plan effectively pulled in the French government which had been the most aggressively anti-German of the victorious European nations...