Remember, here in Louisiana one in six receives some kind of assistance in the form of food stamps.
If Russia was genuinely interested in providing some kind of naval assistance to its Syrian ally, or in conducting some sort of an evacuation, using ships from the Northern Fleet makes absolutely no sense: Russia has ships in the Black Sea that are much closer and that could be on station in a matter of days.
As is often the situation in cases involving this kind of financial assistance, no direct evidence reveals the president's intent in assisting Ms. Lewinsky in her job efforts.
They are prey for the unscrupulous--from those peddling nonexistent coverage to pharmaceutical firms that offer cash or in-kind drug assistance specifically to lure old people to a particular plan or help push them out of the doughnut hole and into catastrophic coverage, so that Medicare picks up almost the whole tab.
Only about one in four eligible households gets any kind of assistance, and waiting lists for vouchers can be years long.
As you know, those additional benefits would not only help families very much in need of help, but that kind of assistance is judged by independent economists to be the most effective means of giving a boost to the economy, because folks who are unemployed are much more likely to spend the assistance that they get and inject it right back into the economy.
We are trying to find a way to create peace and stability that will allow the kind of humanitarian assistance that's needed to take effect in that country.
There's a contact group that's met several times to discuss both the military effort that's ongoing but also the humanitarian assistance that can be provided, the political support for the opposition in Libya, and ultimately what kind of transition could take place in Libya when Qaddafi is no longer in power.
That skirts the moral question of humanitarian assistance in the crowded 21st century, which is how to resolve the tyranny of the present and ensure the kind of help that will safeguard the future.
They have done so under a 1952 military-assistance agreement of a kind that the United States has with some 120 countries around the world, including many in Latin America.
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Mr. Prime Minister, we discussed how the United States could help Iraq train and equip its forces -- not by stationing American troops there or with U.S. bases in Iraq -- those days are over -- but rather, the kind of training and assistance we offer to other countries.
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