Word: aide
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Despite this trend, the Reagan Administration slashed aid to international family-planning programs, and President Bush has not restored it. He recently vetoed a $15 billion foreign aid package because he feared that a tiny $15 million targeted for the U.N. Population Fund might help support abortion services in China. Getting birth-control information and devices to the 2.5 billion people beyond the present reach of family-planning programs will require $8 billion annually, a $5 billion rise from current levels. In 1989 the U.S. contributed $245 million to such programs, less in real terms than in 1979. Unless America...
...economic reforms will not work unless they are radically expanded. As Andrei Sakharov put it, "In the absence of radical reforms in the Soviet system, credits and technological aid will only prop up an ailing system and delay the advent of democracy...
...procrastination. Unfortunately, Aquino's devotion to constitutional principles is "part of the reason she is perceived as being weak," says Elliot Richardson, former U.S. Attorney General, who is now U.S. special representative for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative, an international program that has obtained pledges of $3.5 billion in development aid for the Philippines from a score of countries and institutions. He explains, "She seems totally dedicated to democratic government -- to the point where she will not do things that smack of authoritarianism...
...Nerds" said that nerds were better lovers, because while all jocks thought about was sports, all nerds talk about is sex. In a lecture Wednesday, Widerman told three nerds and geeks listeners--who recently proclaimed on television's "People Are Talking" that they never have sex--that yoga would aid their sex lives...
After holding the line fairly well during the inflationary 1970s, college tuition galloped ahead of inflation in every year of the 1980s. This was during the same decade that federal financial aid came under the Reagan budget...