Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House sent the Senate version of the insurance biil to committee and began debate on the first of the two aid packages that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis vetoed in his spring budget-cutting process...
...state House of Representatives reconvened yesterday to discuss the Senate's recently passed auto insurance bill and to discuss overriding a vetoed $91 million aid package for cities and towns...
...next call in the referendum is for "stopping all expenditure of U.S. taxpayers's money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza." When considering this issue one must realize that the United States does not specify how aid to foreign countries should be spent; therefore, despite the attractive wording, the question effectively asks for a complete cessation of aid to Israel. This demand ignores the fact that Israel is a friend of the United States: Israeli intelligence information is routinely made available to the United States; Israel, in its four wars with its hostile neighbors, tested American...
...negotiations by both sides. In addition to criticizing Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, we should denounce the use of violence by the Palestinians and terrorism by the PLO, including the renunciation of the section of the PLO charter that calls for the destruction of Israel. A cessation of aid to Israel, without any comparable censure of the Palestinians, forces Israel to the bargaining table in an untenably weak position. Instead of blindly legislating the creation of a Palestinian state, we must ensure that any agreement guarantees Israel's security. Without compromise on both sides, peace will not truly be attained...
...Vice President George Bush's response to the housing crisis has been to ignore it. In answer to a question at the first presidential debate, Bush called for full funding of the McKinney Act and involvement of private benevolent organizations -- the "1,000 points of light" -- in communities that aid the homeless. Michael Dukakis has endorsed the recommendations of the National Housing Task Force and is committed to spending $3 billion of federal money to build homes, mostly for low-income people...