Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlighted how Eastern Europe, at least in part, is tumbling toward greater independence from its Soviet overlords. His attendance at the Paris summit of industrialized nations at week's end illustrated, less intentionally, how Western Europe similarly continues to become more independent of the U.S. And Bush's skimpy aid offerings in Warsaw and Budapest showed that as the waning of the cold war hastens these shifts in Europe's tectonic plates, the U.S. is likely to find it both necessary and wise to let its allies take the lead in managing Western responses to changes in Eastern Europe...
Among Dukakis' few supporters in the Legislature is Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge). Barrett could not be reached for comment yesterday, but according to aide David Osborne the Cambridge senator supported the governor's veto because he believes the state doesn't have the money to fund the local aid package...
Osborne said that "there is nothing Barrett would like more" than to support local aid, but not without a revenue-raising bill to come up with the funding first...
...where it fails miserably. Welfare amounts to free money, a completely un-American free lunch. When the money is gone, nothing has changed. Welfare does not require its recipients to go to school or acquire job training. Nor does it provide incentives for limiting the size of aid-dependant families. Welfare's structure, in fact, encourages people who cannot feed their current family to add more aiddependant children to the public dole...
Welfare should be structured so as to encourage aid-dependent persons to become self-sufficient citizens, for both adults and youths to obtain vocational and educational instruction which would free them from the cycle of poverty...