Word: aids
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Definition Gap. The problem is mostly one of definition. Johnson and Weaver defined aid to the "cities" as any federal expenditure in any community with a population over 2,500-not omitting $14.6 billion for such items as Social Security and railroad-retirement payments. Katzenbach somehow managed to include in his sum federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods...
Though the Administration narrowly managed to extend Ex-Im's power to extend arms loans for another five years, it will face an even sterner challenge this week when the President's foreign aid bill reaches the Senate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has trimmed $736 million from Johnson's requests-including the Defense Department's $383 million revolving fund for arms loans to poorer countries...
...distant villages to bear on the people in power. Increased contacts with the rest of the world should help to develop greater understanding of the techniques of government and business competition; and this, in turn, would encourage the confidence of Western leaders and international agencies, tired of seeing their aid money siphoned off into illicit channels...
...combined ideas added up to a determination to create an alliance for trade, aid and economic harmonizing that may eventually lead to a more farreaching customs union of the five. The first joint efforts will include such modest projects as tourist promotion and cooperative fishing and shipping enterprises. The new alliance differs from such earlier Asian nonmilitary groupings as the Asian Productivity Organization, Association for Southeast Asia, and Asian and Pacific Council in that it includes Indonesia-the largest and potentially the richest nation in Southeast Asia. And though South Viet Nam was not included because...
...desperation, Vadim jammed birdseed inside her costume and fired guns in the air, which bothered the birds not at all but drove Jane off to a hospital with a fever and acute nausea. After three days of rest Jane returned to work, finally finished the scene with the aid of even larger fans and a flock of peckish lovebirds. It would all come out onscreen, said Roger, as a "whimsical, lyrical outlook toward sex in the year...