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...added that it seemed likely that at least some of the fund would be initially directed towards supporting financial aid programs for foreign students due to the slowing economy and the gift’s emphasis on international programs...
...fund will support a wide variety of international programs, including financial aid for international students, and student and faculty research...
...many governors and congressmen have lost jobs after newspaper investigations to make the relationship between Fourth Estate and politicians a comfortable one. A neutered press would benefit a number of elected officials. That may be reason enough for them to stay away from providing newspaper and magazines with financial aid. The other obvious reason the government may be against putting capital into media companies is that it could give the appearance of politicians "buying" better treatment by the press. Since Senators have been known to find themselves in compromising conditions, getting a favor from the newspapers now and then might...
While Ford has not asked for government aid, it has used the deep recession in the industry to seek concessions from the union. Retiree and active-employee health-care benefits cost Ford about $2.2 billion annually, according to company officials...
...took from his orchestrated opposition was that it must work harder to reach out to the GOP. Many Democrats argue the opposite, saying the stimulus fight proved the futility of the new President's attempts to achieve a measure of bipartisan consensus. Stripping some objectionable measures (like family-planning aid for states and money for cleaning up the National Mall) from early versions of the House plan, they point out, won over absolutely no House Republicans...