Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1998, Princeton University boosted its financial aid rates, triggering a rash of aid increases among top colleges. It also made people across academia wonder: is an Ivy education worth the price...
Since its founding, Brown and Khazei's youth service corps has grown from a summer pilot program of fewer than 100 volunteers to almost 1,000 volunteers at 10 sites across the country. City Year has attracted more than $40 million in private funding since...
...with the creation of StudentU.com, a new Internet venture that provides lecture notes from 62 universities across the nation free of charge, this most compelling incentive to attend class has become obsolete. In a recent New York Times article the Web site's creator, Oran Wolf, explained that he launched StudentU.com with the intention of helping student improve their notes or to help them catch up to the speed of the class should they have fallen ill and missed a lecture...
...years after the University secretly bought 52 acres of land across the river in Allston, outraging many residents, Harvard is beginning to develop plans for the new property. A physical planning committee is considering several uses for the land in the years and decades ahead; among their ideas is that the Allston property could be developed into a new "academic precinct" of the University, perhaps as a new home for one or more of Harvard's space-starved graduate schools...
...hope it can happen. A new campus across the river would be great for Harvard. And, arguably, the business it would attract would be good for Allston too. But in the end it may turn out that the people of Allston don't want a Harvard outpost plunked down in their midst. If so, there are far less obtrusive uses to which Harvard can put its land--storage space, office space, new labs--and any of these would be preferable to assuring decades of animosity by building a new campus in a community that doesn't want...