Word: stipend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GSAS admissions office can best provide general information. Its year-old minority scholar recruitment campaign, which provides admissions advice as well as financial aid and cost of living stipend information, deserves increased funding from the University...
...Federal Government has taken a few steps to make special-needs adoption more attractive. In 1980 Congress passed a sweeping reform of adoption and child-welfare laws that, among other things, offered for the first time a federal stipend -- $200 to $300 a month -- to some adoptive parents of special-needs children. Just last month President Bush proposed legislation to make them eligible for a $3,000 tax break...
...Makov (pop. 4,754), where only about half the people have running water, the Dulls are comfortably housed in a former Communist Party hunting lodge in the midst of a game reserve teeming with wild animals. The Dulls have been given a car and gasoline and receive a monthly stipend of about $700 apiece. Soviet farm workers make as little as 90 rubles ($140) a month...
...retrospect, it is clear that the state should have used more of its oil income (an estimated $2 billion a year) to regulate the industry more tightly. Instead, the oil money has flowed into entitlement programs, which pay all Alaska residents an annual stipend of some $800 and senior citizens an additional guaranteed income of $250 a month. Even today Alaska officials bristle at the suggestion that residents who benefit from oil shipments should be made to share some of the burden of safeguarding them...
Battalion members receive military training from Panama Defense Force instructors, including practice in shooting and hand-to-hand combat. Authorities claim that recruits, who are promised a gun and modest stipend, come mainly from lower middle-class and rural backgrounds. But government critics contend that the squads include convicted criminals released early from jail in exchange for signing up. Members of the Panama Defense Force also reportedly belong; opposition politicians say they have photographs of one man changing from his army fatigues into a Dignity shirt. And diplomats in Panama City insist they have proof that the Battalion member...