Word: aid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bills differ in specific provisions but are similar in thrust, proposing a broad approach that would pour money into enforcement education, rehabilitation and crop eradication, and would withhold aid from recalcitrant producer countries...
Michael Siguenza, a driver who also serves as treasurer of the drivers' legal aid fund, complained that developers build in Cambridge they are usually required to consult with local businesses but not with taxi drivers...
...speech before a joint session of Congress, whose members greeted her wearing yellow ties and tossing yellow roses flown in specially from Texas; the color has become Aquino's trademark. She defended her policy of reconciliation with the Philippines' Communist insurgents and asked Congress for more financial aid to rebuild the Philippines' shattered economy. "You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it," said Aquino. "And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve...
Indeed, they seemed to be. Some five hours later the House of Representatives voted, 203 to 197, in favor of $200 million in emergency aid to her fledgling government. The vote, admitted Democrat Gerald Kleczka of Wisconsin, amounted to "legislating with our hearts instead of our heads." Indeed, the measure only added to a foreign-aid budget that is already likely to be deeply slashed by the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing mechanism. The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate...
Aquino did her best to persuade President Reagan that if the economic wreckage that she inherited from former President Ferdinand Marcos, including a $26 billion foreign debt, is to be repaired, U.S. aid levels will have to rise. After their meetings, the two Presidents emerged on the White House portico for a press conference and a ceremony at which Treasury Secretary James Baker signed over to the Philippines $100 million in economic aid and $50 million in military assistance. In addition, the U.S. donated $20 million in medical supplies. All but the $20 million, however, was part...