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Higher education experts are also concerned that the high cost of a major federal bailout package could affect discretionary spending on student aid and research funding...
...associate director at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions, said he questioned such reports because “very few people are prosecuted or put in jail for possession of marijuana alone.” Brownsberger also voiced concerns about how the decriminalization measure would affect college campuses. “I think it would become a very real problem in many colleges where some students choose to smoke and some students don’t want any part of it,” Brownsberger said. “The students who don’t want...
...point out: Russia currently has a whopping $550 billion in foreign-currency reserves, a hefty budget surplus, a negligible national debt and an economy that remains on course to grow by 7% this year. The fount of much of the nation's newfound wealth - oil and gas - isn't affected by these banking liquidity problems. As long as the price of oil stays somewhere above about $70 per barrel, the windfall profits will continue to roll in. Moreover, only about 2% of Russian households - the very affluent - own stocks, so the market plunge won't affect the population at large...
Orlowski cites a recent Princeton Review survey in which 63 percent of college applicants said that a college’s environmental commitment could affect their final decisions on where to attend school...
...were involved,” executive director Dan Hogan says. The club also drew singers from across the nation, including many musicians from the Deep South, who brought a new perspective on civil rights to the students during the turbulent ’60s. Siggins Smith was deeply affected by the stories the singers carried with them from the South, noting that the audience at Club 47 revered them in a time when race-based inequalities prevented many blues singers from getting opportunities to perform. “The club was wide open without any kind of thought about where...