Word: aided
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...official death toll approached 7,000 Tuesday, and with 13,000 people still listed missing, that count is almost certain to rise. And true to Nicaraguan tradition, the natural disaster is impacting on politics. "President Arnoldo Aleman is being criticized for the slow progress in getting aid to stricken villages," says Orlandi. "And the Sandinistas are attacking him for not declaring a national emergency." Aleman may want to pay more attention to history: It was political fallout from the 1972 killer earthquake that helped sweep the Sandinistas to power seven years later...
...report on the fabulous stuff taking place all around them. But, Wolfe complained, most post-'60s U.S. novelists had simply abandoned the passing scene in favor of introspection or self-conscious artifice. They had ceded public reality to journalists, of whom Wolfe was a notable example (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff) before he invaded the House of Fiction and noisily threw open the windows...
...which you reported scurrilous lies [about an extramarital affair]. My wife and I have a wonderful, 100% faithful, Christ-centered marriage. Our relationship is strong enough to survive anything. But the lies that are being spread have surely damaged others. I am sorry that TIME chose to aid this effort. DAVID M. BEASLEY Governor, South Carolina Columbia...
...FIRST AID FOR A HEDGE FUND...
During her first year at Harvard, Franklin saysshe made a conscious choice to focus onextracurriculars despite the workload herfinancial aid package required. Franklin says shepaid for that decision in declining grades andwishes she could have done more extracurriculars...