Word: aid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...headed to our evening destination, a sandy beach hidden inside an alcove about 25 miles up the lake. It would take nearly three hours to get there. With the aid of a map and binoculars, we finally located an empty 80-ft.-wide crescent covered with soft, salmon-colored sand. No other boat or person was in sight. Once we had anchored, our daughters made a mad dash for the upper deck in what would be the first of innumerable shrieking rides down the slide into clear 80[degree] water. Though the bow of the boat was wedged securely...
...widgets we can build? Next, the question will be, How can we apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon enough. He predicts that the rudiments of nanotechnology will aid the manufacture and design of up to half of all drugs by the end of this decade...
Revealing information about the Communist Party was also sometimes made a condition of financial aid...
...Bauer also helped Harvard raise $230 million for undergraduate financial aid during its recently completed capital campaign...
...Viewed in the big picture, Putin's decision is hardly surprising - weapons remain the most viable export of the somnambulant Russian economy, and while the rampant corruption of the Yeltsin years has slowed Western aid and investment to a trickle, Tehran's weapons order alone is equivalent to more than 10 percent of Russia's annual budget. Add on recent weapons orders worth $3 billion from India and $1 billion from China, and it becomes clear that there's considerable material incentive for Moscow to ignore Washington's objections. Indeed, a case can be made that even Russia's efforts...