Word: aid
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...Democratic underdog also ripped into Bush's record on the drug war and said "I'll be dammed" before giving foreign aid to countries not helping the cause...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, in a statement issued yesterday, said that Statistics Department has followed University guidelines in its admission and financial aid decisions, and said he was "disturbed" by a recent Crimson article about the department...
...last 10 years, more than 1000 programs, both privately and federally funded, have sprung up across the country to provide aid, education and support...
American taxpayers have unwittingly been funding the process all along. Since 1967 when Israel first occupied the Arab territories, the United States has given Israel more than $45 billion in aid. This year alone, Israel is receiving more than $3 billion, almost one-half of all U.S. foreign aid, at a rate of almost $8 million a day. Aid to Israel has always been supported under the assumption that it was a moral imperative: Israel needed our tax dollars to promote democracy and to defend itself from hostile neighbors...
Sadly, any perceived bias against Israel is a direct reflection of the need to change American policy which is currently biased in Israel's favor. Americans do not give Palestinians $3 billion in annual aid and therefore cannot cut it back. The Palestinians are not occupying another people's territory, and therefore cannot be encouraged to withdraw. Unfortunately, America has so firmly entrenched itself in the Israeli camp, that it has forfeited any political leverage with the Palestinians. The PLO is willing to negotiate with U.S. and Israeli representatives...