Word: granted
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Burton's aides argue that Mobutu was once an American ally, which is true, and they distributed letters and speeches the Congressman made criticizing Mobutu's regime. But they had difficulty explaining why Burton urged the State Department in 1995 to grant Mobutu a visa despite his "corrupt and dictatorial practices." As for the charges leveled by Siegel and the Education Department official, Burton's defenders say that because both accusers are Democrats they shouldn't be trusted, and that Burton did nothing improper...
...contract was the last installment of a $57 million grant HIID received from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent government agency that promotes U.S. interests through assistance to other countries. The grant funded a project, directed by Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer, which promoted Russian development...
...13th game, then served out the match, en route to an 8-6 victory over sophomores Kunj Majmudar and Elliot Weiss. Having clinched the second doubles match, the Cardinal grabbed a 1-0 lead in team score. The No. 3 match, between Stanford's Geoff Abrams and Grant Elliott and sophomore Mike Passarella and junior Philip Tseng, was stopped...
...sources lay hidden in the unconscious, as with Pollock. Except for de Kooning and Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial, the spiritual, the primitive and the archetypal as sources of inspiration...
According to Garcia, the magazine was jointly funded by RAZA and a grant from the Harvard University Police Department...