Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy misses a big Contra aid vote. Sources reveal that right-wingers secretly gave the congressman tickets to see a tractor pull and motocross race twinbill at a local arena. "I tried to get some other guys on the committee to go with me, but I guess they never learned how to have a good time." Amway salesman George Bachrach, a former Eighth District candidate, said of "young Joe's" absence: "I would have been there...
Bowen's plan, which combines outright aid for major medical costs with a series of tax incentives for broader private insurance coverage, is no more than a very modest step. Only about 2% of Medicare patients would actually require extended benefits, according to one estimate. Most important, the proposal would not underwrite nursing-home bills, which now cost 1.4 million Americans an average of $22,000 a year each, with only about 2% of that expense covered by private insurance. Other important costs that are not covered, says John Rother of the American Association of Retired Persons: "Outpatient prescription drugs...
...revelations of secret arms deals with Iran and the consequent diversion of profits from those sales to aid the contra rebels in Nicaragua are more than just the story of some overzealous actions by a gung-ho cowboy. They suggest an Administration's disdain for the often cumbersome mechanics of democracy and a simple, breathtaking willingness to preach one thing in public and do another in private...
...presence and her free enterprise policies have already restored a little business confidence. As capital outflow has all but halted, hard-currency reserves, down to only $200 million in February, are now back to $2 billion. Yet the economy is still in desperate shape and dependent upon outside aid, especially from the U.S. In Manila, more than one in every two people does not have a full-time job, and in the countryside, four children in every five are suffering from malnutrition. Real wages are no higher than in 1972, and the economy will have to sustain a robust...
...about how to appeal to the undecided voters. "Do the people understand abstract things like truth, justice and freedom that I always talk about or do they only understand material things?" The professor was evasive, so Cory described a trip she had made as chairman of a drive to aid the economically depressed island of Negros. "The people welcomed me, but it was because I was bringing them a check, which meant rice for them," she said frankly. "I have the impression that if elections are held, we are lost, because only Marcos can give them rice and pesos." Then...