Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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1. Eliminate all U.S. military aid to the Duarte regime and secure a pledge from the Reagan Administration to keep troops and advisors out of El Salvador.
Not for long. To take up the slack, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS's parent organization, last week announced the allocation of $5 million toward a challenge grant intended to attract a matching amount from new subscribers. This will ease the squeeze by a couple of notches while...
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has pledged $1 million to endow a professorship in computer science. The pledge is as large a corporate grant as the University's $250 million capital fund drive has received.
Now the campaign for cleaner air has become mired in controversy. Business says it must spend at least $16 billion a year to meet environmental regulations, and insists that this is too high a price. The act's supporters, on the other hand, claim the costs are balanced by...
In fact, the dispatch said, a negative vote would "substantially diminish U.S. ability to play a critical role" in Arab-Israeli peace talks it would also "permit the [Soviet] Union to increase its influence in the Arab World." Hours later, a sharply divided Senate approved the sale by a 52...