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Word: needier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life, went out of her way to help a child who needed her. She is not running for office, not running charity balls and not running away. Perhaps she seems a rare heroine at an end of a decade when the rich got greedier, the poor got needier, and everyone else tended to his own shiny self-interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Goodness' Sake | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Palano is Smith's eight-year-old Ada Comstock Program for women over 22. Named for a former dean (class of '97) who later became president of Radcliffe, the program is both generous and uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cultivating Late Bloomers | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Mondale's campaign theme will combine his traditional Democratic liberalism with pragmatic ideas that he developed during a "rethinking process" over the past two years. He advocates a partnership between business and Government to help revitalize American industry, and speaks of the needier tougher trade policies. "I'd press our nation to compete again," he says. So far Mondale has concentrated on each of the Democrats' traditional constituencies: organized labor, blacks, Jews, blue-collar workers, women and teachers. He appealed to many of them last week in thoroughly Democratic Chicago. "This Administration's position on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening the Silly Season | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid, pointed out that the plan would help middle-income families at the risk of needier families seeing less aid in the future...

Author: By Farah J. Griffin, | Title: Education Proposals Spur Criticism from Officials | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

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