Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Police reported that Coleman, a Boston resident, was bleeding heavily and had severe lacerations when they arrived on the scene. The police administered first aid to the driver until a rescue squad arrived at 1:45 a.m. to take the 25-year-old to Cambridge City Hospital...
Peter McPherson, who heads the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), said improvements in literacy rates, medicine, food supply and contraceptives will bring the countries that are traditionally known as the third world up to the standards of the Western world by the end of the century...
...AID administrator, who is also a tax lawyer, said he thought the third world was becoming increasingly interested in democracy...
...AID aims to increase the role of women in the workforce of third world societies. McPherson said that this goal did not stem from the American concept of equality but, "if we are going to produce as much as we can, we need to make better use of women...
...People ought to have the opportunities to make choices," the AID administrator said. He said family planning was also important from a health standpoint. "If a woman has more than one child in less than two years, both the mother and the child are more likely to die," McPherson said...