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...source of the windfalls: Japan. Long criticized for its tightfistedness toward the world's poorer countries, Japan is now second only to the U.S. in handing out development assistance, and it is closing fast. According to the latest figures of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 1986 Tokyo gave $5.6 billion, vs. Washington's $9.6 billion. This year Japan has authorized more foreign aid than the U.S. ($10 billion vs. $9.2 billion). Japan has also begun to recycle some of its growing financial reserves throughout the developing world: at the 1987 Venice summit of industrialized nations...
Cingiser says that the AI's inclusion of the SAT scores are unfair to poorer students who cannot take test-taking classes to improve their SAT scores. Because of this bias against the poorer Blacks, Cingiser says that many of the Black student-athletes in the Ivy League come from the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum...
...becoming elitist again," Cingiser says. "We have cut down the number of Black kids we can get from poorer economic backgrounds. The League in general isn't getting those kids...
...different field of Democratic challengers. In 1984 Walter Mondale was the favorite son of the Democratic Party--he had served as vice president for four years. He had been an influential legislator in the Congress. He had strongly supported civil rights legislation. His appeal to the Blacks and poorer whites was as strong, if not stronger, than Jackson...
...there are no challengers to Jackson in his natural political bases. He is by far the most liberal of the serious candidates, so it is logical that some liberal yuppies and poorer whites will vote for him. Indeed, Dukakis and Gore are trying to make themselves appear more moderate so as to attract conservative Democrats...