Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sister Grace, a conservatively dressed woman with gentle blue eyes and short brown hair, helping the poor has been a lifelong ambition. As a child growing up in New York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift...
Tribes that are federally recognized havepowers similar to those of the 50 states and areentitled to the same types of federal aid, shesaid...
...information dealing with the setting of faculty salaries, financial aid and tuition were subpoenaed in the probe, which is investigating reports of collusion by the colleges. The subpoenaed records, say educators and lawyers, include almost all university financial documents...
...staff ignores this inevitable effect when it dismisses the financial aid issue as irrelevant to the investigation. If the department deregulates the education industry, it will leave schools to compete for top students by offering higher and higher aid awards, rather than setting those awards according to need. By offering inordinately high financial aid packages to some students, colleges will insure that there is less money available for the majority of students--a result that is certainly not "in the best interest" of the country as a whole...
WASHINGTON--California lawmakers pressed for $3.8 billion in earthquake aid yesterday, more than $1 billion above the White House figure, as federal relief legislation began a race through Congress...