Word: aid
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...work there for the Legal Aid Agency and Public Defenders Service led to his 1968 appointment as director of the United Planning Organization, a community action group...
Returning refugees such as Joseph and Nereciana found the fields lying fallow, the last few harvests still rotting on the stem. This wave of humanity could have precipitated a disaster had not the new Tutsi government headed by Paul Kagame secured international aid and, even more miraculously, somehow managed to bridge the bloody tribal divide. There were Tutsi reprisals against Hutu, but for the most part the reintegration of Hutu refugees into Rwandan society went smoothly...
...have left them far behind in the race towards economic globalization. Thus, the new trend reflected in both the World Bank proposal and the African trade bill, both of which aim to increase exports from the world's poorest countries, must be applauded. Loans--the standard approach to foreign aid--often prove ineffective at best and detrimental at worst to underdeveloped countries, leading to a dependency on loans and an enormous debt...
...lift nations out of poverty is by stimulating their economies and increasing their exports by opening up international markets to them. But the U.S., like many other countries including Japan and France, remains highly sensitive to opening its markets, particularly for agricultural imports. In this time of decreasing foreign aid, this attitude becomes less and less acceptable. Only by combining debt relief with efforts to increase exports from the poorest countries will the U.S. and other wealthy countries fulfill their obligation to make economic globalization truly worldwide...
...some of the largest, strongest, angriest, most steroid-filled men and women in New England, the pit was the most violent this side of the Running of the Bulls. Filling the entire rink floor, the predominantly shirtless Centrum patrons ripped into one another, forcing EMTs to rush to the aid of injured pit fighters within the first half hour. Springfield locals Staind shook some more red in front of the bulls, who were then calmed down by the following showing of "Spike and Mike's Animation Festival...