Word: aid
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...judges and probation officers to make sure that criminals did their time and stayed clean afterward. U.S. diplomats would no longer cover up for corrupt officials in "friendly" nations. Foreign leaders committed to suppressing drug production would be rewarded with lowered U.S. trade barriers for legitimate exports and economic aid to help peasant farmers switch from coca to legitimate crops...
...from China was allegedly accomplishing what the most sophisticated medical technology in the U.S. could not. Victims of severe burns, charred beyond recognition, recovered almost unblemished. Damaged skin that would normally require extensive surgery healed on its own. The searing pain of a blistering wound suddenly disappeared, without the aid of narcotics...
...stationing its troops in the gulf. But the West has been less generous, especially in light of the U.S.'s decision to forgive Egypt's $6.7 billion in military debt. Syria remains on Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism and thus is cut off from U.S. aid. Britain maintains its refusal to restore relations with Damascus, which were severed in 1986 after Syria was accused of complicity in the attempted bombing of an Israeli airliner in London...
Because of a new federal law linking colleges' enforcement of alcohol laws to education aid, Harvard this fall tightened up its on-campus alcohol regulations...
...answer to this problem would naturally be to make every effort to educate and aid these people to prevent their deaths in senseless conflicts. The ivory tower guilt complex is most productively alleviated by doing something positive and pacifistic, not by dying sacrificially in a war one thinks is wrong...