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...Thomas Hedley Reynolds acknowledges that "G.S.L. is a troublemaker. Abuses are growing, and I'm sure most administrators would agree it needs to be tightened up." The loans also provide some funds that even the colleges think a student's family should be capable of providing. Tales abound of families borrowing more low-interest G.S.L. money than they actually need for tuition and using some of it for other investments. The Reagan Administration says it wants to cut the program to provide for only the "truly needy...
...their more informal nature allows the opposing parties to break through stumbling blocks like pride and anger and get through to the underlying problem, which oftentimes has little or nothing to do with the original grievance. The majority of cases, explains Skoler, are between acquaintances. Landlord-tenant cases abound, followed by longterm customer service cases and family or neighbor squabbles. Another common case involves the "I bought it; it broke" syndrome, though with a thousand variations on a theme...
...development effort under Nehru and Mrs. Gandhi has achieved high growth rates while aggravating income inequality and entirely abandoning hopes of relieving India's poverty. Also, the infatuation of the elite Indian classes with America has drained India of its most significant human resources, as Indian scientists and engineers abound in Western research laboratories and hospitals...
...often, weak writing rules. Impossibilities abound, such as a scene where a wind-blown hat lures a girl to her doom, but somehow remains stationary overnight to provide a telltale clue. Blood Beach also tries to spoof know-it-all scientists and tight-fisted politicians, but is too lazy to drive its point home...
...reflects the change. The actors speak with microphones (although not all the time), a synthesizer drones in the background, voices come from hidden speakers, echo effects abound--all part of an objectified high-tech nightmare. There's a huge screen in the background, used for the projection of close ups of Lulu's face (her lips, her eyes, all very eerie at 20 feet tall), and in more ingenious ways as well: as a huge contact sheet when Carbone is taking his pictures of Lulu; for a photo-montage providing a dimension of memory to a sex scene between Lulu...