Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that keeping the rich on the entitlement rolls is a political necessity. It is true that many wealthy senior citizens would not support the program if they did not benefit from it. But by bribing the rich for their support, liberals are hurting the very group they want to help--the elderly poor...
Pini said such a program would help the city make up for a $3.7 million cut in state aid to Cambridge...
...help turn this environmentally-conscious, financially-sound vision into reality, students must commit now to show the administration that large-scale recycling can work. The most obvious means to show support for the current college-level recycling is to take the time to drop your waste paper in the recycling bin instead of the trash can. Additionally, students can volunteer to help sort and bale the paper...
Bush's aides also expect that the symbolism of a summit will help boost Gorbachev's faltering position at home. Said one: "The image of these two guys on cruisers in the Med, talking about the world, has to be a plus for Gorbachev." Yet Soviet officials say symbolism counts for little when their store shelves are empty and their restive nationalities are in turmoil. Last week alone Gorbachev got several doses of new trouble. Coal miners in Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, struck in defiance of legislation that makes such walkouts illegal. Coal strikes earlier this year have...
Only recently -- especially since Secretary of State James Baker publicly offered U.S. help for Soviet efforts at reform -- has Gorbachev realized that Bush is belatedly acknowledging the magnitude of the transformation he is trying to effect in the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev now says he has high hopes for the relationship...