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...states, nearly doubling the current level of funding. White House officials said that the programs, which receive two-thirds of their funds from the federal government, are helping some 69,000 poor people who have the HIV virus. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports that this will allay some of the complaints from AIDS activists, who believe there has been more talk than action on such assistance. "This is not a continuation of Clinton's AIDS policy so much as it is his his gay-election policy," McAllister says. "Not that this isn't a perfectly legitimate request...
Although residents said they were glad the subcommittee chose to hold the meeting near the site, many said the council and W.R. Grace had a long way to go to allay years of mistrust...
...would appreciate if this person [who leaked the information] would confirm or deny if he or she is a student to allay any suspicions that might hurt student credibility," Simons said
That was a step in the right direction, but it will take more to allay the misgivings of Southern blacks, almost all of whom believe the fires have been set by organized hate groups. They are unmoved by Patrick's insistence that to date there is no evidence of a widespread conspiracy. Even if a vigorous, thorough investigation is taking place, it does not matter if that investigation's results are not believed by those who have lost the most in the church fires, and they won't, unless blacks also become convinced that every possibility is being seriously considered...
...seen in quotations from its best-known presidents--Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, James B. Conant '14--all of whom actually used the precious word. Like an administrator ably deflecting public anxiety, and wary of increasing what he means to allay, Rudenstine reassures any skeptics that, with affirmative action, Harvard is merely doing what it has always done, which surely was done, and is still being done, for good reason...