If you go with a private trainer, look for one who has previously worked for one of the main assistance-dog training programs.
Congressional Republicans (and some Democrats) are threatening to hold up approval of free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama if President Obama keeps insisting on renewing expanded benefits under Trade Adjustment Assistance, the main aid program for American workers harmed by foreign trade.
The plan (or whatever) seems set to have two main components: assistance for the grim housing market and help with fuel costs for low-income families.
The American government should renew its main civilian assistance program to Pakistan, which is financed only through 2014.
With $11,316 in Social Security benefits and $3,000 of earnings last year, she had income just over the $14,000 limit for Pennsylvania's main pharmaceutical assistance program.
The Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Safe Horizons, the city's main emergency assistance groups, have booths inside, as does the Small Business Administration and employment organizations.
But it is a highly cash-generative business; it is the biggest operator in a market where size brings clear advantages; and profit margins on the main roadside assistance business were close to 50% at the trading level last year.
WASHINGTON — Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group suspected of conducting the Mumbai attacks, has quietly gained strength in recent years with the help of Pakistan's main spy service, assistance that has allowed the group to train and raise money while other militants have been under siege, American intelligence and counterterrorism officials say.
Assistance targeted to formerly abducted young people in northern Uganda has been provided in two main forms: reinsertion assistance and longer-term reintegration and development services.
Earlier this week, the Giuliani administration outlined the two main forms of assistance it is seeking from the federal government to help encourage the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan.
