Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cardona's legal aid attorney, Jose Sanchez, said yesterday that his client will fight the accusations...
...offer of aid was prompted by the poor education record of Chelsea, whose 52 percent dropout rate is the highest in the state...
Officially, China is a champion of black-African interests. The government has denounced South Africa's policy of apartheid and devoted the lion's share of its scanty foreign aid to assisting 45 friendly African states. Beijing also gives scholarships to 1,600 black students each year to study at Chinese universities. Unofficially, though, many Chinese consider blacks racially inferior and question their government's aid to Africa when citizens at home are tightening their belts...
Japan's foreign aid appropriations of more than $10 billion in 1988 outstripped U.S. outlays, and Tokyo has increased its contributions to the World Bank and other environment-conscious lending institutions. The Takeshita government is willing to give more, but its efforts have ironically been hampered by the U.S., which is reluctant to give the Japanese a greater say in running these international groups. One solution might be to set up a new financial entity, an International Bank for Environmental Protection, in which the Japanese could have a major responsibility for both funding and management...
...periodic floods, Bangladesh cannot simply evacuate the "chars" -- bars of sand and silt in the Ganges Delta -- where millions of people have set up camp. But the government has drawn up plans for a network of raised helipads and local flood shelters to facilitate the distribution of emergency aid if, as seems inevitable, disaster strikes again. Meanwhile, the country can only appeal to its Himalayan neighbors to do something about the root cause of the flooding: the deforestation of watersheds in India and Nepal that has turned seasonal monsoons into "unnatural disasters...