Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALVADOR is further than ever from a stable democracy. The economy is now entirely dependent on United States aid. One-third of El Salvador's citizens are refugees. Government planes continue to bomb the countryside. The nation is politically unstable and enmeshed in civil...
...years with the express purpose of crushing Nicaragua's economy and making it politically unstable. The contras never had a chance of winning the war on their own. They admitted as much when they decided to negotiate with the Sandinistas as soon as the Congress cut off aid earlier this year. The negotiations have been warmly welcomed by most everybody in Central America except for the Reagan administration, which has spent years trying to prevent such a disaster. Reagan doesn't want the war to stop until Nicaragua is crippled or submits...
...declined from 4.9% of personal income in 1978 to 3.4% today, while enrollment has climbed rapidly. Reading scores among high school seniors in California have declined annually since 1975, particularly in the inner-city schools that supply recruits for gangs like Los Angeles' Crips. In higher education, federal aid to college students -- grants, work-study jobs, student loans -- dropped 16% from 1980 to 1987, while the cost of college has nearly doubled. The number of blacks in college declined by 26,000 between 1980 and 1986, reversing a steady increase...
...group of kids and asked people in the neighborhood if we could mow their lawns or pick up their garbage or go to the store for senior citizens." Her fee for these services: "A pie or a cake" for the kids, she says. "Some people just gave us Kool-Aid...
...second only to the U.S. in handing out development assistance, and it is closing fast. According to the latest figures of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 1986 Tokyo gave $5.6 billion, vs. Washington's $9.6 billion. This year Japan has authorized more foreign aid than the U.S. ($10 billion vs. $9.2 billion). Japan has also begun to recycle some of its growing financial reserves throughout the developing world: at the 1987 Venice summit of industrialized nations, Tokyo pledged $20 billion in loans and other plans for helping developing nations plagued by debt. Says Masamichi Hanabusa...