Word: aided
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...personnel who have come into contact with the chemicals are rushed to eyewash stations, safety showers or first aid kits positioned throughout the laboratories, and Cambridge and Boston police and fire departments arrive on the scene immediately...
...divide between the government and the people will not be easily healed. Habibie has survived on the instability of the forces jockeying for a place in the new Indonesia--pro-democracy leaders, Muslim activists, students and the armed forces. Few of those factions are likely to come to his aid if events spiral out of control: by Saturday evening, with protests reported in at least five other cities, that seemed entirely possible. The question may now be whether Habibie will be forced to give way to martial law and a military junta led by armed-forces chief General Wiranto...
Migrant-labor organizations and legal-aid groups in Florida have long waged an ongoing battle with the Fanjuls and other growers over the abysmal conditions. Greg Schell, an attorney with the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project in Belle Glade, Fla., contends that of all the growers, the Fanjuls have treated their workers the worst. "They are in a class by themselves," he said. A lawsuit seeking back wages and benefits is expected to go to trial next spring...
...According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will aid cigar novices with his storehouse of tobacco knowledge, choosing selections according to price ranges and personal tastes. While the wannabe-pretentious Harvardian may feign unswerving devotion to Leavitt and Peirce, the true tobacco aficiando is willing to brave the ride to Alewife in exchange for Sonny's expertise...
Second, I believe in Harvard's policy of providing financial aid to students who come from families not able to pay full freight. I believe it is vital to get alumni support for this effort to secure economic and other diversity in the student body. To my mind, the best way to give young people a chance to escape from situations in which they cannot hope for a shot at professional opportunity and other social goods enjoyed by the members of the middle class is the kind of education offered by Harvard and other colleges of reputation. So that...