Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a sum would seem beyond the grandest aspirations of higher education. Not so. Stanford University is announcing this week that it will seek $1.1 billion in a five-year fund-raising drive. Aimed at upgrading science research facilities, helping the growing number of students who need financial aid and increasing the endowment from $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, the campaign is by far the most ambitious in the history of private education. Stanford's closest rival, Columbia University, is in the fifth and final year of a $500 million drive...
...Iran found that Casey was "less than candid" in his testimony just before his hospitalization. Casey's penchant for hiding clandestine operations also led to clashes with Congress. The 1984 mining of Nicaraguan harbors, for instance, was a foreign relations disaster that spurred the legislators to cut off aid to the contras...
Solution: Instead of trying to thwart his plans to find action, we should aid him in his efforts. What we need is "Operation Action...
Conducted under the auspices of a $6 million worldwide U.S. State Department funded project, the HIID study was part of a Reagan administrative initiative to enhance the economic strength of developing nations through aid to smaller, more labor intensive firms...
Schaller also witnessed the Chilean Supreme Court's upholding of the application of the government's antiterrorism law. Established in 1984, the law prevents citizens who aid terrorists from being granted bail or an ultimate pardon if convicted...