Word: aid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aid in recruitment, Spence said he has increased departmental allowances by a few hundred dollars. This will enable each department to bring candidates for junior positions to Harvard, a move which he said gives senior faculty members a closer look at the candidates...
Washington was spending nearly $30 billion a year on public housing when Ronald Reagan arrived in office in 1981. Convinced that such outlays are wasteful, the President has slashed housing aid and abruptly halted new construction, promoting instead a market-driven approach to the problem. Community groups are quick to note that they cannot solve the housing shortage without renewed help from the Federal Government. Yet by developing more efficient construction techniques and innovative financing, the smaller builders hope to pioneer new solutions that draw on both public and private resources. As these groups demonstrate "more frugal ways, more effective...
...icons of hunger and despair. The Third World's starving millions are truly the wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year to promote development and erase poverty. Groups offering assistance range from behemoths...
...Foreign aid has become a vast and powerful industry, but it is also an increasingly troubled one. Around the globe it is frequently marked by failure, frustration and danger. Two weeks ago, ten members of a medical team from the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders were abducted by armed men from a Somalian refugee camp. In Africa, civil warfare blocks relief shipments to areas where hundreds of thousands are starving. In Bangladesh, 15 years of foreign assistance has made little measurable improvement in people's lives. Everywhere stories are told and retold of corrupt government officials who rip off assistance...
...that, foreign aid still has its eloquent defenders. Studies show it has not only boosted the standard of living in many countries but sharply raised literacy and life expectancy. South Korea, devastated by its three-year war with North Korea in the early 1950s, used grants and loans to become a healthy industrial power. Taiwan also built a strong economy with help from its friends. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has promoted health and nutrition programs and immunized millions of children against measles, diphtheria, typhoid and other diseases. "Overall, the record is very good," says John Sewell, president...