Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stung by this summer's loss of more than $3 million in state aid, Cambridge may be unable to raise sufficient funds to maintain basic city services without steep tax hikes, city officials said last week...
...slowdown of the local economy means that the city can no longer depend upon continued increased in state aid and increased tax levy limits due to new construction, two factors that contributed greatly to the financial strength of the 1980's," City Manager Robert W. Healy wrote in a report delivered to council last week...
...rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy. The crippling boycott has deprived Hanoi of all Western aid, credit, technology and trade, turning the country of 65 million people into a basket case...
...want to emigrate." If embassy officials are defensive about the new procedures, they are also firm. To qualify as refugees, Soviets, like all other applicants, must prove that they have a "well-grounded fear" of persecution; those who succeed get an average of $7,500 in U.S. Government aid...
...place in Poland and Hungary, they have been relatively stingy in offering any material encouragement. Now, however, the words may be matched by an ample infusion of cash. Last week the European Community proposed that 24 non- Communist industrialized countries, including its own twelve members, send $648 million in aid to Warsaw and Budapest next year...