Word: stipends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acts have been in rehearsal for a long time. The core of the U.S. soccer team has been together since December 1990, when it was formed in anticipation of the 1991 world championships. With only a $1,000-a-month stipend for living expenses, most of the team members had to move in with parents or depend on spouses for support, and the team had to play most of its games outside the U.S. to draw any crowds. Though they captured the world title in 1991, the U.S. players still won little fame and no full-time jobs. The team...
Since June 1, Union Summer activists have fanned out to 20 cities. Paid a stipend of $210 a week, they are given free housing: an East Boston, Massachusetts, convent; a Chicago youth hostel; a Beaufort, South Carolina, trailer park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers...
After all this torture, Pham suffered something almost as terrible: betrayal. The U.S. Army officers who recruited him had promised that if he were captured, his mother and father would receive a stipend while he was in prison. But the U.S. reneged on the deal. Officers visited his parents and told them Pham was dead, and his family received nothing during the 16 years he was held by the North Vietnamese. When he returned home in 1982, his parents thought they were seeing a ghost...
...this attention has caught even Grey by surprise. His national coalition has barely any funds beyond small scattered donations from its 2,500 members, a $10,000 contribution from the Mormon Church to set up an 800 phone number, and Grey's own $3,000-a-month stipend from the Methodist Church. NCALG's new Washington office, in a back room of the National Council of Churches, is staffed by volunteers. "We're up against a multibillion-dollar industry," says Grey. "And we're beating them with housewives and dentists." The movement's strength lies in such groups as Virginians...
...greater extent. Under Nye's leadership, for instance, the Kennedy School is looking to create more fellowships which would help bridge the financial gap between the public and private sector. Under such a plan, Nye said, graduates who choose to go directly into public service would receive a financial stipend to help compensate for their lower salary. An important comparative advantage of the public sector over the corporate world is the potential for greater responsibility immediately after graduation...