Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy School officials announce this week that they will assist the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson in an effort to rebuild America's inner cities. The plan would involve the borrowing of corporate pension funds to support improvements in poor urban areas...
...additional part of Bush's education program ties in quite nicely to another priority on the Bush agenda--drugs. The Bush proposal includes $25 million to assist schools plagued by illicit narcotics. However, this is not enough to satisfy the administration's commitment to combat drugs. Additional plans include an end to federal plea bargains with dealers using assault rifles and an increase in mandatory sentences for drug dealers...
Julie Clifford scored twice for the Crimson and Char Joslin added one goal and an assist...
...farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends that the U.S. should not help Gorbachev solve his economic problems lest he be spared the choice between guns and butter...
...Alameda County, the board of supervisors last January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and a member of the committee. "As a physician, I was trained to give the best possible care to anyone, period. Back when I was in medical school, I never thought I would be discussing this...