Word: aid
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...citizens or the handicapped, among others. In Atlanta, one burger shop boasts an 80-year-old kitchen worker, while at a school for the deaf an information session on the jobs that deaf workers can effectively perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman: "We did it as a last resort. There's always been a shortage of engineers, but it is becoming more acute...
...instead of maneuvering around private pension funds, the 102-member staff at HMC guards a portfolio that pays professors' paychecks and student financial aid. Twenty percent of the return on investments in 1984-85 helped bankrolled the University's $650 million budget, while the rest was reinvested...
Financial aid awards to students from depressed communities could lead those students to return to their homes to set up practices, according to Fein, but he was skeptical. A graduate who had never seen a ghetto might be less likely to want to establish a practice there, but a someone from a ghetto would be no more likely to return...
...meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...
...thousands unemployed in the auto and steel industries is now affecting workers in the oil states. Our response to this regional depression shouldn't be joyful declarations of "Christmas in April," but a concerted governmental effort to minimize the short-term impact of falling oil prices--through programs to aid dislocated workers and some form of world price stabilization...