Word: assists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Families with Dependent Children. Federal participation in this basic welfare program started in 1935, when Washington joined the states in expanding what was then known as the mothers' aid movement. Originally, the program was intended primarily to assist widows with children. Today 80% of the payments go to single parents whose mates have deserted, and other eligibility standards have been steadily made more generous. In 1936, 534,000 people collected a total of $21.3 million in welfare payments from Washington. Today the Federal Government pays $7 billion to 11 million recipients. A tightening of rules is calculated to remove...
...powerful trade union barons, who made it clear that they would not tolerate another year of the damaging infighting that has deflected attention from burgeoning unemployment and the anti-union policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government. At the last minute, the moderates also got an unexpected assist from 35 of Benn's fellow leftist M.P.s who do not like his political opportunism. They cast their votes for a dark-horse leftist on the first ballot, then abstained on the crucial second ballot to give Healey the edge. Next day the delegates delivered an even more serious...
...high cost and high pain of moving has resulted in the growth of a number of specialty companies that buy old homes, help find mortgages and new homes and, sometimes, assist spouses in finding work in their new locations. Says Gaylord Milbrandt, executive vice president of Runzheimer and Co., a Wisconsin-based relocation consultant: "Business has just been phenomenal." With 13 offices nationwide, Merrill Lynch Relocation Management helps transfer some 35,000 families of other companies yearly. It bills employers for brokers' commissions and real estate closing costs, plus its own fee of about $2,000 a sale...
Less than 4 minutes later, Lilli Pew notched her first goal of the season off another O'Neil assist, and the half closed with the Crimson...
Located in Gutman Library, the center will offer monthly workshops and seminars, focusing on the theme, "Leadership at a time of declining resources." The center also will coordinate group discussion meetings, and provide funding and students to assist principals in preparing manuscripts for educational journals...