Word: aid
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...House Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday night approved legislation authorizing cuts in foreign aid and arms sales to countries responsible for fixing oil prices. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate, although the Clinton administration is urging caution. Blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which spent some $10 billion on U.S. weapons systems in 1998, may be somewhat self-defeating. "The Saudis aren't buying F-16's in order to become self-sufficient in defense," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They buy those things to give the U.S. an economic incentive to keep on supporting them, actually funneling...
...academic admissions decision is made by a committee of faculty in your field. There is no single admissions committee," said Russ E. Berg, GSAS's dean of financial aid...
Assistance centers in Cambridge will offer aid in Spanish, Portuguese and Haitian-Creole, among other languages...
...conversion of Cronkhite into office space is part of a larger move to centralize the Institute around Radcliffe Yard. The Admissions and Financial Aid Office is expected to vacate Byerly Hall in 2006 and Harvard's official guarantee of access to Agassiz expires in 2004. What graduate students may see as a personal affront is merely the necessary conversion of Radcliffe's space to fit the Institute's needs. Extraneous and unaffiliated users of Radcliffe's space hinder the new Institute's mission to become a center for advanced study...
Radcliffe also expects to utilize Byerly Hall when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Office of Admissions and Financial Aid vacates the building in 2006, the year its lease expires...