Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experts yesterday examined the impact of United States foreign aid programs, concluding that while economic growth programs have been successful, promoting political and cultural growth has been a more difficult task...
Reagan's original budget proposal included $2 billion in cuts from federal student aid, eliminating financial awards to more than 2 million students. Experts feared that these cuts would lead to drastic cutbacks in the number of grant recipients and the collapse of the GSL program...
...President Bok has done an enormous amount of work fighting for student financial aid, and the work he has done has began to pay off," said Shattuck. During the last year, Bok and Shattuck have repeatedly lobbied the Senate to resist the Reagan Administration's efforts to slash aid for higher education...
...academic clause has been added to the act, requiring a student to achieve a "C" average by the end of his second year in order to continue receiving aid...
Although he declines to put a dollar value on his company's aid to Harvard, Exxon's Snook says that aid will diminish by between 30 and 40 percent next year. Snook says Exxon's significant cuts in grants to Harvard did not come in response to the CIA controversy and that they are in line with cuts in funding for similar centers across the country. The CIA controversy probably would have caused Exxon to reduce grants to Harvard if thouroughgoing cuts were not necessary anyway, Snook adds...