Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty makes a major decision to aid the student strikers by allowing them to skip final exams and be graded solely on the basis of coursework handed in to date, or on a pass-fail basis. On May 8, 35,000 demonstrators rally on Soldier's Field. The same day, police peacefully disperse 650 demonstrators who begin to damage Shannon Hall, the headquarters of Harvard's ROTC program on Francis...
...written her and bought her a meal. Discreet marital infidelity among politicians rarely prompts much notice in Japan; involvement with a spy is another matter. One of the chief allegations is that the woman influenced a decision in 1989 by then health minister Hashimoto to push for a large aid package for a Chinese hospital, at a time after the Tiananmen massacre when few countries were willing to deal with China...
...controlled nuclear universe. Washington's reaction was swift and furious. First, Tenet ordered a post-mortem on the CIA's failures, due in 10 days. Then the President imposed economic sanctions on India, as required by the never used 1994 Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act, cutting off military and economic aid, totaling about $140 million annually, and barring military exports and U.S. bank loans. These restrictions will not gravely damage India's economy, but the U.S. is also bound to oppose loans from the IMF and the World Bank, which could affect $14.5 billion worth of projects. Vajpayee shrugged...
...hopes of rallying more punishing global sanctions looked dim. India's biggest donor, Japan, froze new grants, then suspended all loans for future projects, costing India roughly $1 billion. But none of the other nuclear powers--Britain, France, Russia or China--was willing to cut off aid or trade...
...been involved in arrests with pretty much everyone in that car," Officer DeFrancesco says. "I treat them with respect and they treat me with respect. And sometimes someone with a past criminal arrest will come to the aid of an officer. Sometimes they can be your best informants...