Word: aid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly seemed to be for the nearly 5 1/2 million Americans who lined up singing and laughing across America on Memorial Day weekend to raise money for the hungry and homeless. Hands Across America was but the latest in a series of pop-charity extravaganzas-- Farm Aid, Comic Relief and Live Aid --that have raised somewhere around $81 million over the past year for farmers, the homeless in the U.S. and the starving in Africa. America's fascination with celebrities, so often demeaned as shallow and voyeuristic, has been turned into a vehicle to aid the least celebrated. Says Rockefeller...
...charity events like Live Aid could help get the young into the habit of giving. But organizers are already worrying about "compassion fatigue." Pop charity may turn out to be one more passing fad. At the upper end of the economic scale, some wonder if charity is in danger of succumbing to chic. New York Financier Felix Rohatyn, who along with his wife Elizabeth has launched a small crusade against events that concentrate more on social glamour than helping worthy causes, is concerned that the pet charities of the New York rich, the favored museums and cultural institutions and hospitals...
...Celebrities are more numerous, but their fame is briefer: the half-life even of putative superstardom can be as short as a year. Fads are announced, exploited and abandoned even before Good Morning America can cover them. Philanthropy has turned into a series of prefab, single-issue Woodstocks (Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hands Across America), and the U.S. has twice elected to the presidency a marvelous pop creature who goads Congress with movie dialogue ("Go ahead; make my day!") and calls military uniforms "Pentagon wardrobe." The original make-my-day movie actor has been elected mayor of a town...
...unanimous feeling that the session had come not a moment too soon. The images of starving Ethiopian children that first flashed across television screens more than a year ago continue to haunt and outrage people the world over. A wellspring of sympathy gave rise last year to Live Aid, the globally televised rock concert aimed at putting an end to famine, and last week to Sport Aid, a 78-country marathon to raise more funds...
...Administration hopes that the new contra accord will persuade Congress to approve the $100 million in military and humanitarian aid that is scheduled to come up for a vote this month. The Miami agreement, said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman, "is an extremely positive step in broadening the ) leadership of the resistance, strengthening civilian control and improving coordination of military activities." However, it is still too early to tell whether the compromise will survive. The road to contra unity is littered with earlier manifestoes for change and pledges of alliance...