Word: granting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...climactic Sunday session, the diehards tried to attach some new conditions. One would have required the U.S. to grant Iranian parliamentarians free television air time to explain their grievances to the American people. But the deputies beat back this and other attempts to stave off, or at least further complicate, the negotiations. Then came the Majlis vote approving the basis for the hostage release...
...painter like Georg Scholz. Scholz's Industrialized Farmers, 1920, is all rant and bile directed against the country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means of a straw stuck...
Basic Educational Opportunity Grant: $390. A federal "gift" based on need, it's the foundation of most financial aid packages...
California State Grant: $768. California awards three types of grants, two based on need. Nguyen receives the third kind, based on academic merit...
...transition from working wife to full-time paralegal-assistance student at Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC) hasn't been easy. A Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG), a Texas State Grant, and a part-time job at TCJC just barely cover rent, food, and utilities for Axtell and her children...