Word: aid
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...policy. Having taken the reins just as the collapse of the Soviet Union nullified the organizing principle of postwar U.S. foreign policy, the Clinton administration failed to define the U.S. national interest and formulate the resultant strategies and priorities. Instead, Republicans charge, it's been a mishmash of Band-Aid solutions and crisis management that has often simply deferred problems while fundamental concerns have been neglected...
...world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington would find it impossible to recognize a Palestinian state declared without Israeli consent on the eve of an election, and Capitol Hill would almost certainly move to block some $80 million in U.S. aid earmarked for Arafat's administration...
...notion that developed countries could do more to subsidize the cost of drugs was given impetus by a study reported in Durban last week. Such aid has been dismissed in part on the grounds that patients on these medicines need more monitoring than local health officials can possibly provide. But pilot projects in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Uganda have proved that even poor patients can stick reasonably well to a regimen without constant supervision...
Since last year's summit, there has been a slow acceleration of forgiveness. And the 2001 U.S. foreign-aid bill, which passed the House last week, would provide for an additional $238 million. President Clinton complains that even that sum isn't enough, but Congress is reluctant to up the ante because, in part, it fears that too much forgiveness will invite future profligacy. Further deals, Clinton says, are a chance for the U.S. to share its prosperity with the rest of the world--and to ensure that prosperity continues...
...WRITE AID Until now the worlds of paper and silicon have been irreconcilably separate. No longer, thanks to a clever doodad from Seiko called the SmartPad ($199). The SmartPad looks like a shmancy executive portfolio, with a seemingly ordinary pad of paper on one side and a port for your Palm PDA on the other. Whatever you write on the pad instantly appears on the screen of your Palm. You can even save your scribblings as an image and e-mail it. For bad handwriting, however, there's still no cure...