Word: assistive
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...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee to Assist Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (whose welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's Money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency foundered. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said: "There would have been no success or victory without...
...meddling by NATO in this region seems to us to carry great risks ... We have indicated clearly that we cannot accept a mission of that type." JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, after the G-8 summit, saying that NATO is unlikely to supply any troops to assist the U.S. in Iraq...
...transform them into places available to a greater part of the student body, he likes the idea. Failing that, however, he said he still believes that “the administration is really slipping on student life. Even if it isn’t involved directly, it can assist and aid those who do try to change...
...arrest occurred because this victim in her anger called the police right away,” Catalano said. “We had so many people that night it was possible to assist CPD in making the arrest...we flooded the area. It was a good description from victim combined with good police work...
Combine that with the lack of consistent shooting, a consistently poor assist-to-turnover ratio, and constant foul trouble. Throw in the loss of an All-Ivy caliber center to a season-ending foot injury, and the end result is a disappointing 4-23 record and a 3-11 mark in Ivy play...