Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foundation is a $30-million memorial fund set up by Congress in 1975 to award annual scholarships to second-year college students who have demonstrated "an outstanding potential for a career in public service," said Clara J. Reed, a Foundation spokesman...
...award, which covers educational costs, gives students the financial costs, gives students the financial freedom to take on typically low-paying internships in the public sector...
...four winners said that the award would go towards financing the remainder of their undergraduate education and two years of graduate school, which is supposed to steer them in the direction of public service work...
...students, the award comes after a year of filling out applications, interviews and just plain waiting...
Such an all-encompassing enterprise, composed of pieces that don't quite fit together, was bound to become a Frankenstein monster with multiple personalities. Altogether, there were 44 award categories, representing everyone from Brother Blue to Bim Skala Bim, from the obscure to the nationally famous, from singles to albums to videos, from folk to country to jazz to reggae to rock to hardcore...