Word: aid
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...under all of the faltering bits and pieces of the financial and credit systems. Traders are sending a message and have decided not to be subtle about it. America is spreading itself too thin. It has taken on obligations to assist many of its largest financial institutions, aid hundreds of thousands of homeowners, create jobs through an economic stimulus package, and give a large portion of the working population tax cuts. Wealthy citizens and corporations will be required to pay more to offset these obligations. This income will only make a difference if these sources have more...
...Another student entrepreneurship organization on campus is the more established Harvard Student Agencies, which has been in existence for 51 years and was originally founded to provide students with tuition aid through business experience. Unlike HCEF, HSA provides concrete opportunities to practice entrepreneurship by running the existing agencies with the freedom to maintain traditional practices or move the agencies in a new direction. “A lot of the time people think entrepreneurship is just starting new businesses, and it’s not,” says Jim McKellar, the CEO and general manager...
...need to be taken. Chief among those is the need to restore confidence in the financial system and the demand for foreign trade. Most stimulus packages are designed to meet these two needs. More difficult to swallow might be the recommendation to up the "quantity and quality" of direct aid to developing countries, an area of the budget many countries are already slashing. The report makes it clear that developing countries are desperately in need this assistance during the recession to meet basic needs, but that's the problem - as the recession deepens, everyone else needs a hand...
...essential manufacturing base, which has been considerably eroded through manufacturers going offshore. Add to this the encouragement of consumers to buy homemade goods and products and if this is achieved, along with maintaining employment, then the impact of the economic crisis will certainly be reduced. This is basic first aid while the brains of the financial world determine just how to organize the international economy for the benefit for everyone and not just the greedy. Bob McCullough, Karana Downs, Australia...
...There has always been a great deal of potential for an amenable government to provide aid to stem cell research. Obama’s memorandum does not specifically deal with the certain types or numbers of stem cell lines that scientists can use. Instead, the National Institute of Health will have 120 days to establish new research guidelines, meaning that the number of accessible stem cell lines—which Bush had limited to 21—should soon be in the hundreds. This will allow scientists to work on new lines and start to draw together cells of different...