Word: adjustable
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...complete with its rain-bedeviled Lucas electrical system that seemed to render the car immobile in the driveway whenever the weatherman forecast cloudy skies. For someone primed to love the Pontiac brand, the Sunbird was a disheartening experience. Everything from the trunk lining to the levers used to (manually) adjust the driver's seat seemed flimsy and prone to problems. Service at dealerships was mediocre at best. They didn't seem to care, and I resolved therefore that neither would...
...real estate investments Tuesday, after the position had remained vacant for over a year. Daniel W. Cummings, a former managing director at private equity titan The Carlyle Group, will join the Company at the end of June. The appointment comes at a crucial time, with University officials scrambling to adjust budgets to accommodate a projected 30 percent drop in the endowment for the fiscal year. HMC’s previous director for real estate, David Ferrero, stepped down in Aug. 2007, according to money management newspaper Pensions & Investments. HMC announced in February that it would lay off roughly a quarter...
...compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department of Education sent a letter reminding financial-aid administrators of their power to adjust federal aid awards using "professional judgment" and documentation, and encouraging them in this economy to consider students with special circumstances. "The ones who have been appealing right now have been in dire straits," says Bobbi Carpenter, director of financial aid at Virginia's Sweet Briar College. "They don't want...
...need not despair. Some applicants have successfully argued that aid officers overlooked a key piece of their financial picture the first time around, such as the cost of elder care, childcare, medical bills, rent or private secondary-school tuition. Officers also report that they have leeway to adjust aid packages if parents make the case that they are nearing retirement age and need to preserve more of their savings instead of exhausting them on college tuition. This year, says Seth Allen, Grinnell's dean of admission and financial aid, more families are appealing on grounds that, after one parent...
...officers likely to adjust offers made to families who are merely anticipating a change in circumstances. What if that looming layoff never materializes? Instead, financial-aid officers recommend waiting until the worst comes true - and then getting in touch. Pronto...