Word: aid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Houston's Rice University led the pack, boasting small classes and a high graduation rate along with relatively low tuition and generous financial aid...
...East China Sea aren?t likely to ease tensions. Japan and South Korea continued an unprecedented joint naval exercise Wednesday, in response to North Korea?s increasingly belligerent missile-testing program. But acting crazy is an important part of the reclusive communist state?s effort to secure aid from Washington and its allies. "Making themselves a security problem is North Korea?s primary leverage in dealing with the world," says TIME Tokyo correspondent Tim Larimer. "It?s crippled by famine and the decline of its industrial base, so its military might and reputation for irrationality are its strongest cards...
...test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing strongly that a $5 billion U.S.-Japanese-South Korean program of nuclear energy aid to North Korea will go ahead regardless...
...when the university said he could not wear priest's robes, she let him buy a forbidden pair of trousers. His education helped him understand threats to the Ganges, and since 1982 he has struggled to open the eyes of bureaucrats and the public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting him to a waste-management conference, he silently raises his hand to bless an old man with a huge vermilion mark on his forehead who is bending over Mishra...
...said most families learned the correct amount owed soon after receiving their bills by calling the financial aid office...