Word: aid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Some said it couldn't be done. And yet five years later, the campaign is set to meet its goal and then some, with Harvard pocketing an extra $100 million that no one had planned on. New programs flourished, renovations were planned, new buildings sprung up, financial aid grew and classes decreased in size, with the only casualty being Rudenstine's health along...
...Harvard deans have still maintained much of their divisional autonomy. FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles resisted Rudenstine's calls for financial aid reform for a solid year, until the dean was finally satisfied that a change should occur...
While every uncounted person means a loss of $3,000 in federal aid to the city, the number one million is not significant. According to census council member and independent demography consultant Peggy Backer, "If the population is six digits or seven, it doesn't change anything...
...that Hillary needs the votes of New York's Puerto Rican emigres--made an agreement with the island's government. Puerto Rico would let the Navy stay until 2003, using only dummy bombs. In return, Puerto Rico would get, essentially, a bribe: some $40 million in additional Washington aid. But most Puerto Ricans tell pollsters they want the Navy out now. Indeed, Vieques residents may soon pass a referendum that could void the three-year pact. That is one reason why demonstrators persevered until they were peacefully herded off last week by Janet Reno's boys...
...Tanzania, school enrollment, far from falling a third since 1993, has changed little. And the inflow of new aid, which far exceeds external debt service, is helping Tanzania boost its spending on essential social services. You asserted that the poor in Tanzania and in Africa generally were "hammered" by poor policy advice from the IMF. Not so. The reforms of recent years are helping farmers to sell their crops again, schools to have proper textbooks and hospitals to have the drugs they need...