Word: godsends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second Durkin campaign has benefited only a little from what in other states would be a political godsend--Wyman is presently under investigation by the Justice department for his role as a middleman in the deal to make Mrs. Ruth Farkas ambassador to Luxembourg in return for a six figure contribution to the Committee to Relect the President in 1972. Wyman, who has virtually acknowledged the legitimacy of the charges, has been kept very much on the defensive on this issue, claiming simply, "I don't believe I broke any laws." But polls indicate that New Hampshire voters, who never...
...This conflict is a godsend for the Soviets," said a Western diplomat in Moscow about the Middle East's long no-war, no-peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have...
...children's bathing suits and some clothes for herself. A Pittsburgh mother of five says that she cashed her check and used it for food and household supplies-without telling her husband. Detroit Secretary Virginia Donohue is paying for dental work with her rebate. "It's a godsend," she exclaims...
...million Americans, Medicaid is a godsend. The program provides medical services for the poor and their children, and nursing-home and extended hospital care for many indigent elderly-all financed by $12.6 billion in federal and state funds. Unfortunately, other less-deserving people have benefited handsomely from the Medicaid program. Spurred by newspaper stories, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and investigators in at least half a dozen states have been spending the past several months looking into charges that the program has been egregiously abused. Now they are finding that their suspicions were well founded. Inquiries in New York...
...suggest that not every state has mass transit problems [Oct. 9]? In Texas, as throughout much of the Midwest and Southwest, we still do not have severe traffic congestion between the principal population centers; thus the interstate highway program is a godsend...