Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This company, called Student Aid Services (SAS), was run by Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons and two senior aides, Assistant Dean Warren C. Reed and Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller. It was formed with the explicit approval of the Harvard administration...
...order to clear the atmosphere of confusion, Harvard owes the community answers to these questions. First, what was SAS' precise relationship to the schools under investigation for alleged tuition and finanical aid-fixing...
While President Bush turned his attention to domestic consumption of drugs, lecturing American students by nationwide television to just say no, the emergency aid he sent to Colombia came under fire. General Miguel Gomez Padilla, chief of the National Police, said that the equipment from Washington was useless in the drug war, complaining that it was "more suited to conventional warfare than to antinarcotics and antiterrorism operations." Gomez later claimed that he had been misquoted and in fact appreciated the aid. Another growing concern for Colombia is the presence of U.S. military advisers, considered an international embarrassment and a potential...
...Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...
...criticize the machinery of her welfare state, with its lengthy waits for elective surgery and its vibrant black market manned by people dodging heavy taxes. Voters who are struggling under her austere economic policies complain of her largesse to Third World countries -- one of the highest per capita foreign aid budgets in the world. "We are world champions at solving other countries' problems," charges the right-wing Progress Party leader Carl Hagen. "We behave as though we are a superpower...