Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tends to go for the incumbents." This year the Washington-based Women's Campaign Fund, founded in 1974, is raising money for more than 100 progressive female candidates. "Our goal," says the fund's Virginia Sheridan, "is to provide (a total of) over $450,000 in financial and technical aid." Another group, Emily's List, was established last year to help Democratic women gain Senate seats. Emily stands for Early Money Is Like Yeast, and the organization has raised $200,000 for Missouri's Woods and Maryland's Mikulski. Republicans, on the other hand, generally funnel a portion...
...least half the enrollment. But the practice of taking responsibility for the future of entire graduating classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from Dallas to Chicago, from Oakland to New York City, are pitching in to shore up troubled public- school systems...
Working through another program called Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships, Boston companies last year began paying for financial-aid advisers in each of the city's 17 public high schools. The advisers steer students to any available grants, loans or scholarships. When these possibilities are exhausted, ACCESS provides additional cash to ensure that students have the full amount they need for school. This year, 150 of the city's college-bound students got a total of $80,000 in ACCESS funds, an average of $535 for each. "Finding those 'last dollars' often defeats candidates for college," explains Phillips...
Three years ago, Senator Christopher Dodd delivered a nationally televised speech on behalf of the Democratic Party opposing proposed aid to the government of El Salvador. "If Central America were not racked with poverty . . . hunger . . . injustice," argued Dodd, "there would be no revolution." That is the premise. And the conclusion? "Unless those oppressive conditions change" -- Can they? Can the U.S. will them to? -- "the region will continue to seethe with revolution." The choice? Either "to move with the tide of history" or "stand against...
...response to the bombings, France deployed troops to aid frontier police and imposed visa requirements on all visitors except those from selected European nations...