---

• n  the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
  could not walk without assistance
• n  a resource

• Operator assistance is never free: this one takes five minutes out of your allowance, even if the call was super quick.
• If a firm needs more assistance than is allowed under a widely available standard program, then that is exceptional assistance.
• Among the nation's largest banks that have not yet announced they have been approved for the government's TARP assistance are Synovus Financial Corp, MT Bank, New York Community .

• aid
• assist
• help

News & Articles

---

• Assistance League installs new officers for 2013-2014
  Assistance League of San Bernardino executive board for the 2013-2014 year that was installed into office Monday night at The Mexico Restaurant.
  June 15, 2013 - Highland Community News
• Assistance Available for Disabled Oklahomans Affected by Tornadoes
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Disabled Oklahomans affected by tornadoes and severe weather can apply for work and other assistance at various locations around the state. Vocational Rehabilitation and Visual Services
  June 15, 2013 - KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls
• Fitch Places Vermont Student Assistance Corp. - 1995 Bond Resolution on Rating Watch Evolving
  Fitch Ratings has placed Vermont Student Assistance Corp. - 1995 Bond Resolution on Rating Watch Evolving, as a result of a the pending restructuring of the trust in conjunc
  June 14, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

---

• David Petraeus in Daily Mail - Charleston
  We must demonstrate to the people and to the Taliban, that Afghan and (International Security Assistance Force) forces are here to safeguard the Afghan people, and that we are in this to win, that is our clear objective,he said.
• Nancy Pelosi in USA Today
  Congressional leaders have been receptive to the idea, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called for "emergency and limited financial assistance" for the battered auto industry.
• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  What's really frustrating me right now is that you've got these same banks who benefited from taxpayer assistance who are fighting tooth and nail with their lobbyists . . . up on Capitol Hill, fighting against financial regulatory control,...