Word: aid
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...preseason match between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, was my first football game in 21 years. If ABC hired Miller in part to bring in a new audience to aid Monday Night Football's slumping ratings, I fit the bill. I'd grown up to be a suspicious female who prefers the plaintive nihilism of Hank Williams Sr. to the "rowdy" antics of his Monday Night Football theme-singing...
What low-income individuals truly need is the basics: funds to fix broken vehicles so that they can drive to work; financial aid to cope with skyrocketing housing costs; and money for medical services, utility bills and funeral expenses. Federal, state and local aid for these basics is dwindling. Private philanthropy too often shies away from providing "direct service" and does not adequately help needy, hard-working families. PHILIP KELLERMAN, PRESIDENT Harvest of Hope Foundation Oneonta...
...Mellencamp] Farm Aid [Cheney] Operation Desert Storm...
Stunned, Arafat began bending, but not much. He still balked at joining Barak in considering American proposals for how control of Jerusalem might be divided. Clinton phoned Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia--recipients of billions in U.S. aid--but their leaders not only refused to pressure the Palestinian, they also urged him to stand firm. Barak and Arafat began playing "luggage diplomacy," ordering aides to put bags outside doors to threaten walkouts. By Wednesday night, July 19, even Clinton was ready to close down the talks, but at the last minute Barak and Arafat decided to remain at Camp David...
...final foreign aid bill won't come out of Congress until September, when lawmakers return from their summer recess. In the meantime, Albright plans to hit the speaking circuit to complain about the trims, while her aides lobby behind the scenes to restore what's been hacked off. Otherwise "we're heading for a train wreck on foreign policy programs," warns one of her advisers...