Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiry, into more than 60 colleges and universities nationwide, reaches back at least five years and concerns all financial transactions in the institutions regarding tuition, faculty salaries and financial aid. Since August, much ink and breath has been spent justifying only the practice of jointly setting financial aid packages for undergraduates...
...often in developing nations the U.S. has inadvertently contributed to the environmental problem rather than the solution. In the early 1980s, the U.S. Agency for International Development helped build the Mahaweli Dams in Sri Lanka -- a multibillion-dollar construction typical of AID's past tendency to define development in terms of steel and concrete. The project has flooded forests and destroyed tea plantations. Washington's Environmental Policy Institute cites the dams as one of the 18 most destructive water projects on earth...
After many such debacles, AID has started assessing the environmental impact of its funding. Other Executive Branch agencies, such as the Treasury Department, which oversees U.S. contributions to international lending institutions like the World Bank, should follow suit...
...purpose. Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made it hard for the U.S. to aid the recent coup because someone might have spontaneously shot the general, though that may just be an excuse for the Administration's incompetence...
...suspect that Olechea switched sides because he did not get timely assurances that Giroldi and his troops had succeeded in capturing Noriega. He waited for more than two hours after he knew the coup attempt had begun, and then, under pressure from loyalist commanders to come to Noriega's aid, Olechea and his troops moved out from their base at Fort Cimarron at about 10 a.m. Not until an hour later did the rebels manage to seize a state radio station and begin broadcasting their capture of Noriega...