Word: aid
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...like AIG, Freddie has had to go back to the government a number of times with cup in hand. The mortgage giant has already received $14 billion in government aid. After a fourth-quarter loss of $24 billion, the company said it needed an additional $31 billion from the government to keep the lights...
...lives of ordinary Darfuris. The now-defunct NGOs contributed 80 percent of the workers to the UN World Food Programme’s efforts in Darfur and maintained hygienic standards in packed refugee camps. However effective or ineffective these organizations may be, 2.75 million refugees depended on their aid, along with millions more...
...meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and bosses at embattled American carmaker General Motors. Opel, a Germany-based division of GM, is fast running out of cash and GM and Opel bosses recently went cap in hand to Berlin to ask for $4.25 billion in state aid. In return, GM say they will restructure Opel by cutting costs and loosening the company's ties with the parent company in Detroit. Opel would become an autonomous legal entity, half of which could end up in the hands of private investors. The question is: should German taxpayers help out America's biggest...
...worked with the European filmmakers who produced the shorts. What she saw in these films was the seed of social change that was not without a modern-day resonance: “The films offer a blueprint for how America, in partnership with so-called ‘aid recipients,’ once approached the same problems we face in Iraq. These films offer a very concrete example of how we managed recovery hand-in-hand with European partners.”Despite the obvious bureaucratic strings, many of these films are rather charming. “The Story...
...years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty,” a poem similarly concerned with nature and spirituality, Nilsson merely lists. The words above have no particular rhythmic quality; the enjambments do not aid the poem’s flow. This list style, prevalent throughout the collection, ensures that these images, individually so enigmatic and striking, lose their impact and individuality. The reader would need endless patience, not to mention an excellent dictionary, to parse the intricacies of every single poem. That...