Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be your requisite trendoids, your sprinkle of window dresser aspirants, your misguided cultural studies concentrator who wants to derive a thesis on window displays, but the real readers-and lovers-of this book will be your drab, gray non-aesthete nobodies of life. For them, Doonan, with the aid of 200 full color illustrations and a glossary of exotic terms like "whomp" and "nelly," whips up in print the sort of kinky, macabre fairealism which has made his name in Madison Avenue windows. It is a big-money, high-luxury alternate reality stripped of those issues which "haunt those...
Financial aid for the doctoral students will come from fellowship money provided by the Kennedy School and from the NSF grant...
...penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children in the developing world. It was just one of numerous conspicuous gifts made in 1998. Among them: Armenian-American billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian's $200 million in aid to earthquake-ravaged Armenia, and businessmen Ted Forstmann and John Walton's $100 million fund to subsidize private-school scholarships for inner-city students...
...year canvassing the country, examining local school districts--the program will serve 40,000 students in 38 cities--and cajoling everyone from Michael Ovitz to Barbara Bush to join the fund's board of advisers. He got the idea for the venture after years of studying a similar financial-aid program in New York City. Nine out of 10 school kids who used money from the fund to attend private schools, he says, went on to college...
...kept meticulous records and case histories of the 4,016 people, mostly of the Dinka tribe, it has rescued so far. It takes advantage of the market to free the people taken by bandits, tribal leaders and professional slave traders. Says Gunnar Wiebalck, who is in charge of disaster aid for Christian Solidarity: "Arab traders know that we buy them back." The ex-slaves, many uprooted by the country's civil war, are then re-established in society by other Christian Solidarity programs...