Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circuit, a country music band entertained weary walkers as they lounged on Boston Common. The hungry hustled past with hot dogs and Cokes, while others limped to the first-aid tent to tend to their blisters...
...counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will teach his techniques to others searching for ways to cope with adolescent pregnancy in their community...
Since his initial success at the Milbank Center, Carrera has expanded his program to include two other community centers in Harlem, one of which is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Carrera receives financial support from New York City's Childrens Aid Society and devotes many hours each week to fund raising from private as well as public sources. The cost for each teenager is about $1,500 a year, and the paid staff members are all indigenous to the community. "Most adolescent pregnancy programs are headed by white female social workers," says Cary Dixon, a 48-year-old black...
Despite those generous words, however, Washington's aid is largely symbolic and does not signal a new, comprehensive policy toward Eastern Europe. For example, Bush promised to push for reduced import duties on certain Polish products, but the goods covered under the President's pledge amount to as little as $3.5 million out of a total of more than $400 million in Polish exports to the U.S. And loans of some $500 million from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have yet to be approved...
...fact is that MIT provides us an easy but hypocritical way to soothe our consciences and at the same time feel we are being progressive by providing students with the financial aid they need. But it MIT did not have ROTC, or if it were two hours--instead of 20 minutes--away from the Harvard campus, the outcry we are now hearing would be silenced. The University would then simply have to allow ROTC official status on campus, as it could not flat out deny students such an important financial aid opportunity...