Word: aid
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...January alone. There is talk of countries such as Germany having to bail out their smaller eastern neighbors. But rescue prospects are complicated. Western European governments are battling recession themselves and the debt they have taken on to finance domestic recovery packages may make them unable, or unwilling, to aid their Eastern European counterparts. (See pictures of printing money in Germany...
...turning that research into reality was not just generous government aid, but the fact that Denmark stayed with it. While countries like the U.S. let tax credits for renewable energy wax and wane, smothering infant green industries in the crib, Denmark looks to the long term. In the 1990s, the government inaugurated tariffs that required utilities to offer 10-year fixed-rate contracts for wind power. That sort of security led to a rapid expansion of wind power at home - the country has more than 5,200 turbines producing in excess of 3,100 MW of electricity - and helped firms...
While the recent economic downturn has left more families than ever before in need of financial aid, the difficulty of the paperwork that financial-aid applications require has reached an unnecessary high. In times like these, it is disheartening that the current Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form poses a major barrier to many potential applicants who need financial aid the most. With more than 100 questions, the current form—which, ironically enough, was created in the early 1990s in an effort to streamline the financial-aid process—seems excessive and inefficiently constructed...
...projected amount spent on financial aid next year is set to increase by 18 percent—surpassing the Financial Aid Office’s expectations, according to Sally C. Donahue, director of the Financial Aid Office...
When Harvard College raises its tuition, it is usually to stay on pace with the inflation rate. But while the inflation rate for this past year is only 0.1 percent, and fear of deflation looms, Harvard is raising its tuition by 3.5 percent, responding to greater demand for financial aid in addition to compensating for the plummeting endowment...