Word: neediest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copy press run was printed by Garber Publishing Co. in Toledo, denied that Garber had agreed to finance the venture in return for the first $20,000 in revenues plus 30% of the rest, and denied that any profits from the venture would go to the Neediest Cases Fund that the New York Times sponsors each year...
...profit organizations, to be one of the most effective financial aid programs. But the Harvard administrators who are responsible for dealing with the U.S. Office of Education also know that the program is not always the most equitable way for the federal government to give jobs to the neediest students. The process through which schools apply for federal funds encourages "grantsmanship," says R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services. Clever administrators can manipulate their applications to obtain large increases in their schools' grants--increases not always justified by the financial need of the students...
...help the neediest families, the U.M.W. credit union has opened a temporary office in nearby Cedar Grove that has lent up to $500 each to some 1,000 District 17 miners at interest of 1% a month, payable within a year after the strike ends. In addition, Cabin Creek stores, following the tradition of the coal fields, are extending credit to the miners and not pressing them for payment, even though most of the merchants are also hurting financially. Close by Cabin Creek, business at the Marmet Furniture Store is off 50%. Down the road, employees of Wendy...
During a season blessed with such saccharin tidbits as the Globe's heartwarming stories about people who've sent in $25 to the Globe Santa every year since 1908 and the Times's heartwrenching neediest cases stories, it was nice for us cynics in the audience to come across the Real Paper's "Real Santa" and his "Greediest Cases" list...
...Mark Zanger, who wrote the Real Paper article, pointed out, there wouldn't be any neediest cases at all if the greediest cases didn't hog everything. So the Realp piece wasn't really cynical--just showing the other side of the story...