Word: aid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...penalty comes after a two-month investigation by Brown concluded that Executive Director of the Brown Sports Foundation David Zucconi, as well as coaches of several Brown teams, offered outside financial aid to recruited athletes...
...League's prohibition against any special financial aid for athletes is perhaps the most fundamental of all League rules, which is why the Council determined to make clear that the remedies for violations of this rule will be severe," said Columbia President George Rupp--who is also the chair of the president's council--in a press release...
...Foreign aid is never popular with politicians during an election year. Nevertheless, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is gearing up for a big battle with Congress next month to head off what her top aides say are "shocking" cuts that the Republicans want to make in her budget for next year...
...Clinton has asked Congress for about $23 billion in fiscal year 2001 for foreign aid and for running the State Department - which is about the same as what will be spent this year. But the appropriations bills now making their way through the House and Senate would slash that request by about $2 billion...
...wars over Kashmir and went to the brink of a third last summer, both also have compelling reasons to settle the dispute. Pakistan's basket-case economy is in desperate need of Western assistance, and Washington has made clear that this is no longer a Cold War entitlement - aid now is dependent on easing tensions with India and reining in terrorism. For India, there's the simple fact that the insurgency in Kashmir is bleeding its defense budget, while a military solution remains as elusive as ever. And Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist government is better placed than...