Word: lending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have heard Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996, justify peacekeeping neutrality despite violent conflict with a clear oppressor to retain the UN's status as an impartial mediator. Although frustrating to see violence continue amidst peacekeeping troops, the UN peacekeepers can lend stability to post-conflict areas, especially when coupled with other UN programs that monitor the evolution of political and judicial power and foster economic development...
...Lend me a quarter," he tells...
...LEND A HELPING HAND Be an ambassador to children in Ghana, help spruce up an ancient site in Greece, monitor rare birds in Ecuador or teach English in China. You'll feel good about yourself...
Traveling to far-off places to lend a helping hand is catching on as an alternative to leisure holidays. "It satisfies some inner urges that people may not have been able to satisfy in their normal life," says Bill McMillon, the author of Volunteer Vacations. This guide to worthy adventuring includes some 2,000 projects around the world, up from 70 in the first edition 12 years ago. Back then, McMillon remembers, "everybody was aghast that anyone would work on a vacation...
...find out is to sign up for a week with the Close Up Foundation's $1,160 Congressional Senior Citizen Intern Program in Washington. Participants go to hearings and briefings, take political seminars on topics ranging from health care to international relations, meet with VIPs and lend a hand in the office of one of their Senators or Representatives. Accommodations and most meals are provided by a nearby Marriott. During her stint as an intern in California Democratic Representative Bob Filner's office, Lupita Jimenez, a children's book writer from Chula Vista, was taken to lunch in the Members...