Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet the new President two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared, without much conviction, "Well, I assume she's in control." Nonetheless, the Administration has been increasingly impressed with the calm authority of the former homemaker, and recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined by the troublesome presence in Hawaii of Marcos, whose payment of supporters to stir up unrest in Manila has irritated even the usually imperturbable...
Still making a social statement out of rock 'n' roll, Baby Boomers in huge numbers flock to concerts like Live Aid and Farm Aid. "Instead of running for office to abolish hunger, they go out and feed somebody," says University of Massachusetts Public Service Professor Ralph Whitehead Jr. "Baby Boomers are highly skeptical of institutional tools. They believe in J.F.D.I.--just frigging do it." And even if charity concerts have not proved to be the most efficient or speedy way to channel money to the poor and helpless, for many Baby Boomers joining hands and swaying to the music...
Taking an M.A. in sociology from Northwestern in 1970, Ford went west to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, because "I needed more credentials and equipment." After nearly three years of providing legal aid to welfare clients back in Chicago, he quit, frustrated by the low pay and disillusioned with the possibilities for creating change through the federal courts. He decided to go into real estate instead...
...plant. The area was cleared in two stages, Lyashko said. The initial move took place within a six-mile zone around the plant that authorities later extended to 18 miles. He added that 230 teams of Soviet medical workers were working outside the cordoned-off sector to aid evacuees...
...People's Liberation Army captured two more southern towns. Apart from the war, the moderate Sadiq must find ways of balancing the influence of Libya, which helped him during his years in opposition, and the U.S., which last year gave Sudan more than $400 million in military and economic aid and special famine relief...