Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the shelter: drug addicts, prostitutes or simply abandoned, lonely adolescents with no place...
...Fatimites recognize something that most of the modern world has missed. The idea that each person's actions are important to the good of all and that we can somehow help others whom we will never know has been lost in the twentieth century's selfish individualism...
...there was one person who knew how best Harvard should react to the changes in South Africa, it was Tutu. Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to help topple the racist South African regime, and had only days before spoken with South Africa's president, F.W. de Klerk...
Murphy also said that the University should establish fellowships for exchange students from South Africa similar to those being considered for Eastern Europe. He said that these students would "bring back ideas of democracy and help it work there...
...projects that the lower interest rates that would result from a smaller deficit could produce a modest budget surplus by the end of the century, when coupled with reduced defense spending. Economists believe that lower interest rates would encourage productive domestic investment, make U.S. businesses more competitive and thus help reduce the trade deficit. Using only half that dreamed-of $150 billion peace dividend in the year 2000 for deficit reduction would still boost the economy while allowing modest increases in social and infrastructure spending...