Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...census takers prepare for the 1990 population count, which could sharply shift the relative clout of states in the House of Representatives and force the redistribution of countless federal aid programs, one trend is already evident: as a group, Hispanics have grown five times as fast as the rest of the U.S. population since 1980. Their number has leaped 39% and is now 20.1 million, 8.2% of the U.S. total. The figures, released last week, came from a Census Bureau survey conducted in March, which made no attempt to distinguish between legal and illegal residents...
...missionary spirit has always hovered over the U.S.'s relations with far- off, backward lands. In the mid-19th century, New England ministers went abroad to save souls. A century later, foreign aid technocrats preached the virtues of hydroelectric dams and other megaprojects. Now a new generation of globe-trotting officials is spreading the gospel of environmentalism...
...ROTC debate was the first occasion that I remember on which the council affected my life in any sort of sustained way. For a week groups picketed, posters covered the Yard, and in virtually every house dining hall, students engaged in ideological arguments about homosexuality, financial aid and education...
...FRANCISCO--Workers zeroed in on remaining bodies buried under tons of freeway concrete yesterday and scientists pinpointed the epicenter of the mammoth earthquake beneath a mountain creek while President Bush toured ravaged areas to offer sympathy and aid...
Administration officials worked on a program of aid as the president made his trip. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner offered no pricetag but said the federal government would take on "a very, very major role in helping California...