Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barrett's support could help defeat the proposition because "he's popular [and] people have a lot of respect for him," said Vicki Lewis, a spokesperson for the Committee to Defeat Proposition...
...response to widespread concern over the effects of development in Cambridge, the City Council last night initiated a plan that would require commercial developers to help pay for new affordable housing in the city...
...corrupt commander and turn him over to American authorities to stand trial on drug charges. Last week, after a group of rebellious officers actually had Noriega under their guns, debate raged in Washington about whether the characteristically cautious Bush Administration could have -- and should have -- done more to help the coup's leaders. Senators, senior officials and military officers alike wondered: Had the U.S. fumbled its best opportunity to seize Noriega? Or had it sidestepped a diplomatically dangerous and probably ineffective intervention...
...price tag for AIDS medical care this year will be $3.75 billion. But U.S. health providers are ducking the responsibility to help those in need...
Over the years, California has given the rest of the country everything from health food to a taxpayers' revolt. Now it has bequeathed another far-reaching legacy to its sister states: a clampdown on auto-emission standards that could help transform the American car and the fuel that makes it run. To the discomfort of U.S. automakers, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously last week to adopt California's strict limits for the 1990s as the law of the land. The measure, which seemed certain to win House approval, would cut existing levels of tail-pipe pollutants...