Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--One day before unveiling his new budget proposal, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis called yesterday for increasing state aid to cities and towns by $120 million in the coming fiscal year, if he gets the new taxes he is seeking...
...Clearly, our ability to finance this program of aid to cities and towns will depend on having the revenue," Dukakis said at a Statehouse press conference flanked by Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and other municipal officials...
...been a curious time to grow up in America, and the answer of authority, as espoused by William J. Bennett (who will now redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course what we really need is more attention to the moral questions--not just the old answers--along with the rigorously trained minds and modern educations capable and desirous of reflecting on them. But usually, we've been thinking about something else...
...American higher education in general. Some academically deficient athletes will certainly find it more difficult to attend college--but certainly no more difficult than intelligent, disadvantaged students who can't shoot baskets. Athletes affected by Proposition 42 will still qualify for Pell grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and other financial aid available to their non-athletic counterparts...
...doesn't preclude other forms of financial aid or admission to college," Schiller said...