Word: pelle
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This fiscal year the Federal Government is handing out $11 billion in aid to some 7 million U.S. students through a patchwork of programs: Pell Grants and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) to the very poor, low-cost National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) and the self-help College Work-Study plan. The largest program is Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL), which provides $7.7 billion to 3.5 million students (52% more than last year's number), many from families earning much more than $30,000 a year. Under Reagan's proposed budget, GSLs would require a far stricter determination...
...with the involvement of all parties. In addition to these legislative initiatives, members of Congress, including some traditional conservatives have begun voicing their opposition to U.S. military aid. For example, Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R-N.J.) has issued statements against the Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador Sen. Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.), after a four-day tour of Central America, stated that he is convinced that 70 percent of the killings in the nation have been committed by the Salvadoran military...
Reagan is expected to ask to cut the allocation for Pell grants--direct gifts to needy students--from $2.3 billion to $1.4 billion next year, and to tighten eligibility rules so that the maximum qualifying family income is $14,000, rather than the current...
...such measures, even if successful, can only delay the crunch the College faces if federal cuts take a significant bite out of the $2.3 million in Pell grants Harvard undergraduates currently receive, or the heavy Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program subsidy. The Social Security payments for which students with special needs had been eligible ended with the October cuts; incoming students cannot receive any such aid, and students currently on the program will be phased out of it over the next few years...
...That pell-mell derring-do is not for the courts but for the cameras. It is the climax of a television pilot called Today's FBI. Two Sundays ago the show's first appearance in its weekly time slot outdrew in ratings another durable American institution, Archie Bunker. As the age of antiheroes apparently gives way to a public hankering for heroism, FBI Director William Webster and his beleaguered colleagues are seeking to resume their legendary role. So Webster has given free use of the agency's name and seal to the ABC network and Hollywood Producer...