Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked Healy to provide a list of the criteria for creating new appointments and positions in city agencies in effect since Gov. Michael S. Dukakis announced a hiring freeze in August to compensate for the loss of more than $210 million in state aid to Massachusetts cities and towns. Walsh sponsored the order...
...Poindexter accomplish what Oliver North could not: force Ronald Reagan or George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson, insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress that the NSC staff was not violating restrictions on U.S. aid to the contras at a time when, in fact, it was. He also contended that Poindexter had briefed Bush about each White House meeting on Iran-contra that the then Vice President had missed. If so, Bush's knowledge might be far more extensive than he has admitted...
...Washington is likely to be confronted by European contrariness and even defiance on subjects ranging from arms control to international economic cooperation. At the summit of the seven industrialized powers in Paris this summer, the E.C. sought and secured the lead role in coordinating the West's efforts to aid Poland and Hungary. At the conventional-arms talks in Vienna, the U.S., NATO's erstwhile champion, now sits alongside other alliance members at the negotiating table. In the Middle East, France seems to be bidding to take a lead role, seeking to negotiate a cease-fire in Lebanon while...
...revitalized European Community, nonmembers like Austria and Norway are considering joining the club, and even neutral Switzerland is worried about being left standing on the platform as the 1992 train pulls out of the station. East European countries are cozying up to the Community via bilateral trade and aid deals while Moscow watches with envious desire. "What is going on in Western Europe is a serious challenge for us," says Vitali Zhurkin, director of the Soviet Academy of Science's recently created Institute for Europe. "It is a positive process that shows us perestroika should be moving quicker...
Smith, along with the other institutions, said it will cooperate fully with the investigation by providing information on how it sets tuition, faculty salaries and student aid, said Janet McNeill, a spokesperson for the college...