Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never expected, ever, that I would be running for a statewide office," Kraus says. But he added that his time in the Legislature and as assistant director of admissions and financial aid for the College gave him a valuable perspective...
Kraus began working on financial aid problems at GSAS during a "crisis time," Jones says. The government had cut support for graduate education. So in a system dubbed the Kraus plan, he devised a means for allocating the remaining resources "as equitably as possible...when people were used to a different type of lifestyle...
...willing to take bold, risky strokes, rather than just tinkering at the edges," says Seamus P. Malin '62, director of the Harvard International Office, who worked with Kraus in the undergraduate financial aid office...
...frustration, most of it directed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Citizens and local officials complain that FEMA did not act quickly enough to help the area rebound. The agency has closed all but five of 32 disaster-assistance centers after taking more than 51,000 applications for aid. So far, the Federal Government has committed $321 million to Hugo recovery efforts in South Carolina, and $100 million has already been paid to contractors and cleanup crews. About $17 million in checks for individual victims of the storm has also been mailed...
...that Libya has supported the cause of international terrorism ranks right up there with calling the Pope Catholic. Except in this case, the asserter was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi himself. To hear the Libyan leader tell it, in an interview with the Egyptian weekly al- Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism." That...