Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education sphere. May I add that I have got no elder brother to support me and my father is lame. So this incident combined with chronical poverty imposes upon me an overwhelming barrier which goads me tremendously to weep to you for the first help...
...they arrive in the United States. ASPAU has arranged through the Experiment in International Living for a month's "homestay" with an American family--usually about 100 miles from the college they will attend--before actual registration. The homestay is designed to help the student get his bearings on American society and serve as a buffer against the reactions of Americans to a black foreigner...
...begun to show signs of returning health. And its new strength is reflected in reports both at home and abroad. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that the British have entirely repaid more than $625 million borrowed from the U.S. last summer in order to help sterling escape devaluation. In a long-distance diagnosis, the Reserve Bank's Charles A. Coombs, vice president in charge of foreign operations, said that the pound has "moved through crisis to convalescence...
...unions and employers are wrangling with the government over its reluctance to end loophole-loaded controls on wages and prices. Unemployment reached 602,844 last month, leaving 2.6% of the labor force jobless against a 2% level that Prime Minister Harold Wilson once called "acceptable." Rising food prices have helped pull the cost of living to a new peak. Worst, industrial productivity has failed to improve, and though help might have come from private investment, instead such investments have slumped. Soaring government spending for defense, welfare, roads, schools, housing and nationalized industries has raised the specter of higher taxes next...
...said the U.S. should limit its role to helping Asians train their troops, set up an Asian summit conference, and create a viable regional economy. "We must help them achieve an Asian solution for Asian problems," he added...