Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economics teaching fellow completed a 132-mile fundraising bike ride Saturday, raising more than $2000 for a fund dedicated to the memory of his former house master...
...billion loan to Mexico, the biggest such relief package since the Latin American debt problem arose in 1982. The short-term credit is designed to tide Mexico over until the end of 1988, when it expects to receive new loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund...
...paid by the rising tax revenues of an expanding economy. But for most of the uninsured, he offers only a vague suggestion that they "buy into Medicaid." With what? Even among the uninsured who work, about half earn less than $5 an hour. Their contribution to a Medicaid insurance fund would be either meaninglessly meager or unconscionably expensive...
...talking about a handout. What I'm saying is that if you have a commitment to the young and the poor, then you have an equivalent commitment to identify the sources to fund it. You're not unaware of the fact, certainly, that we have something called a safety net for the truly needy, and as in some work I did on the budget, when I looked at the numbers, I discovered that the means-tested programs that went to the poor were cut three times as much as the non-means tested...
...decision was made by the [Democratic National Committee] and Dukakis strategists not to fund a voter registration drive. The pressure of local party pols, elected officials--they didn't want to swell their districts with new voters," said western Mass. Jackson organizer Lisa Baskin. "If we had made a decision to register after the convention, there would be no question of victory in November...