Word: aid
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Election fraud is cause for condemnation and potential military action in Panama, but is ignored in countries which, for our own strategic interests, continue to enjoy our military aid. In Uruguay, for example, government threats scare voters from approving investigations of human rights abuses under the military regime of the 1970s; in El Salvador, soldiers drive peasant voters to the polls at gunpoint...
Recipients of the scholarship are nominated by house masters and senior tutors, and are awarded a monetary grant based on the size of the awardee's financial aid packet. The prize stipulates that the money be used towards their tuition...
...supplemental budget passed by the Senate is a stop-gap measure intended to pay some accounts, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and general relief, through mid-June with the other unfunded matters to be considered later...
Bush looked decidedly relieved when Reagan brushed aside reporters' questions about the dilution of Reagan policies on Star Wars and military aid to the Nicaraguan contras. "Well," Reagan said cautiously, "having had for eight years some of the same problems he's facing now, I'm not going to comment on that...
...fact, the economic conditions that provoked the unrest had been simmering for more than a year. Jordan has long been living beyond its means; a decade of Arab aid and overambitious borrowing provided an illusion of prosperity. But lately the money has begun to run out. Since last summer the Jordanian dinar has fallen 45% in value, while unemployment (now about 15%) and inflation (up to 30%) climbed steadily. In late March the government agreed on a budget-balancing plan with the International Monetary Fund aimed at paring the country's deficit and, ultimately, rescheduling Jordan's $6 billion foreign...