Word: aid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...They say Harvard's initiative is particularly helpful because the loans 20/20/2000 provides are unrestricted, allowing community development corporations to help middle-income families, who often do not qualify for federal or state aid...
Protesting this week's violent conflicts in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the demonstrators called on the U.S. to withdraw military aid from Israel...
...rate has been well below average for years and years," said Jannette M. Parks, Harvard's manager of federal and state aid...
...there are sparks of life once again. In 1991 LeBar and some underemployed colleagues performed a television exorcism on ABC's 20/20. So many viewers called in to request similar aid that the late John Cardinal O'Connor of New York appointed four archdiocesan exorcists. In an average year, they investigate some 350 cases and perform 10 to 15 exorcisms. Last year Chicago's Francis Cardinal George appointed the first official exorcist in his diocese's 160-year history. Several months earlier, the Vatican had revised the Rite of Exorcism. It eliminated physical descriptions of Satan and such honorifics...
...insure kids like Ray Haros, advocates for the poor say, will take more than money. Ray had Medicaid until his mother got a job three months ago and stopped receiving cash aid. Rene Haros's income was low enough for her five children to remain eligible for Medicaid. But no one told her that unless she asked for it, they'd be cut off. To reapply, she has to navigate a complex and intrusive process. She must go to an interview, fill out as many as 19 forms, reveal family assets and document everything from children's births...