Word: self-help
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...this question, Jewett says, he found undergraduates somewhat more resilient than he had expected. Accordingly, the average self-help package for next year has increased by some $500 in term-time earnings and some $100 for summer work...
Amishman Ed Lee, who will not pay Social Security taxes [April 19], should be free to practice his long-established religion. President Reagan has appealed to Americans to return to the concept of self-help instead of relying on Government aid. The Amish have done just that by caring for their own for generations. Now the IRS wants to take Lee's property when all he asks for is to live and let live...
Cornell officials began to consider the plan in September along with other alternatives, such a fulfilling only part of each student's aid need or raising the self-help portion of all students' aid, Scannell said...
After holding about 12 forums and meetings with students, faculty members and trustees over the course of the year, officials decided the plan linking self-help to desirability was the most fair, he added. It provides aid to all students who need it while "targeting aid to students we most desire," he said...
...plan to keep the Caribbean Basin out of Cuba's orbit by pulling on its economic bootstraps is rooted in what the President likes to call the "magic of the marketplace." Said he: "It is an integrated program that helps our neighbors help themselves, under which creativity and private entrepreneurship and self-help can flourish." The "centerpiece" is a twelve-year exemption from tariffs on exports to the U.S., the first such trading advantage to be given to any region. Although 87% of U.S. imports from the basin are already duty-free, Reagan hopes that extending free trade will...