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Much of the wish list will not be realized. Last month Bush unveiled a proposed foreign aid budget for fiscal year 1991. He allocated a total of $423 million for military, law-enforcement and economic aid to the Andean nations. While the request would double the 1990 bequest, the package represents just 4% of the $10.6 billion Bush has proposed for all antidrug programs. The White House emphasizes, however, that European countries will join the U.S. in providing Andean...
...speech was part of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Bicentennial Lectures, a series of talks on the Constitution sponsored by the Law School and established at the bequest of Holmes...
...Bequests often allow Harvard to expand the criteria for scholarships if no one has fulfilled the original prerequisites, Miller said. The William Pennoyer Bequest of 1670 offers assistance to any descendant of Robert Pennoyer, or, alternatively, a student born in New Haven...
...very orchestration of the New Orleans convention, with Reagan leading off and the Vice President batting cleanup, emphasizes the philosophic legacy that Bush will formally accept Thursday night. The Republican nominee is inescapably cast in the role of the grateful inheritor. But what precisely is Reagan's bequest...
Since the project was founded five years ago, 252 Giraffes have been named, and each has been sent a certificate commending the "courageous actions." Apart from whatever publicity the couple can drum up, that's it. No foundation bequest. No fancy banquet. Its charm lies in its simplicity...