Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cutback of $665,878 from the original Dukakis request for a new scholarship program, which would fund low-interest student loans and aid to needy part-time undergraduates. Officials at the Governor's Office for Education said yesterday that administrative costs for the program would now be funded entirely from the base scholarship appropriation...
Specifically, Moore and Fox divided the departments into three groups--social sciences, humanities and the physical sciences--and gave one GSAS admissions and financial aid officer responsibility for each of the areas. The bulk of GSAS's administrative contact with departments involves admissions and student stipend awards, according to administrators and professors...
...yesterday called the plan an effort to "professionalize" GSAS structures. He cited the GSAS officers' expertise in fields such as federal student aid regulations and travel-abroad requirements as examples of their usefulness...
...aid to East Asia has dropped to one-third of what it was in 1975, when George Bush left his post as head of the U.S. liaison office in Beijing. Japan, meanwhile, has increased its overall foreign-aid program tenfold, and is now the No. 1 net donor. One-third of the U.S.'s total foreign trade is with East Asia, yet nearly two-thirds of its staggering $137.3 billion trade deficit originates there. That imbalance is nearly 20 times as severe today...
Others contended that many refugees have simply gone underground. Said E.J. Flynn, an attorney for Proyecto Libertad, a legal-aid organization: "What will happen now is they will take their chances going north alone, without documents, or pay people to help them...