Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Money is, however, and the man who has so much of it--Duryea--appears likely to come out on top tomorrow. Carey, who in four years has managed to help rescue New York City from bankruptcy, cut state taxes and eliminate the state's budget deficit, boasts a personality and political presence tolerated only by party insiders and religious martyrs, both of whom are used to suffering. Meanwhile, Duryea, one of the legislature's most deceptively conservative spokesmen, looks like a good bet: he leads most recent polls by about 2 per cent overall, but by 6 per cent among...
...sophomore Cris Crissy gave Princeton two touchdowns to help the Tigers to their first league win, 21-0, over Penn at Palmer Stadium...
...race that shapes up, in many people's minds, as the old fat cat vs. the progressive challenger. Crane stands on his record and many votes of confidence and lots and lots of corporate and political backing as evidence of his competence. And somehow, Lew Crampton needs all the help he can get. "It's up to the voters," he says...
...your article on the U.S. trade mission to Japan, there was a very clear error. The trip was not "paid for entirely by Washington." The American businessmen paid all of their travel expenses, plus a $1,000 to $1,800 fee to the Department of Commerce to help defray the costs of the mission...
...work of trying to help must go on, and, as Massachusetts welfare administrators point out, the new program is responding quickly to more and more abuse cases. But the case workers, drowning in individual woe, do not find much personal reassurance in statistics. Nor do they have much faith in the capability of most of the social means available to cure repetitive cruelty to children. As a group, child defenders seem to be afflicted, in fact, by what is, or used to be, a most un-American emotion, a tormenting sense of the ultimate futility of even their most constructive...