Word: aid
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...purely legal terms, the Senate and House votes may come to little. The Stennis amendment, attached to a $35 billion aid-to-education bill, faces a vote in the House and then a House-Senate conference, where the members, mostly liberals from the congressional education committees, may dilute the rider or scrap it. Besides, the amendment is framed as "a policy of the U.S. Government," which lacks the force of law. The House antibusing and freedom-of-choice provisions must go to the Senate and then to joint conference. Further, the amendments are part of a $19.4 billion Labor...
...other Asians are uneasy at the speed, the size and the cost of the invasion. They tend to play down or overlook Japan's growing aid to the area. Tokyo is paying out $1.5 billion in World War II reparations, has given $220 million to the Asian Development Bank, and has lent $100 million to the World Bank. Japan's foreign aid, most of which goes to other Asian countries, totals $1.4 billion this year, second only to the U.S.'s $1.8 billion. The figure that most concerns Asians, however, is Tokyo's huge trade balance...
...participation in violent solutions. Continuing to display his low profile, Rogers had listened quietly and attentively to Black African leaders, who seemed impressed with his receptivity to ideas. That receptivity was nicely illustrated in Ghana. During talks with Prime Minister Kofi Busia, Rogers was asked for a $15 million aid loan. The request was granted immediately...
...most tragic irony of the American judicial system is the difference in treatment meted out to the accused and the convicted. From presumption of innocence to free legal aid, the rights of the defendant are guaranteed. Once convicted and sentenced, however, the individual becomes society's unwanted stepchild. He is allowed to waste away -and prepare for a continuing life of crime-in that charnel of cynicism and despair, the American prison...
Recently science has offered aid to the historian with devices that analyze stone, specify the quarry it came from and describe how long it has been smothered with dirt. Works of art wait in line for a meeting with these machines which attempt to abolish some of the misconceptions about the Middle Ages...