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...television that there are proposed or actual cuts in financial aid, what it tends to do is discourage low- and moderate-income students disproportionately because they often don’t have the [college] counselors,” he said. “Those kinds of things will affect students of modest means to a much greater extent...
...just begun. Even the best of friends made at Harvard have only had four years to get to know each other. And although distance will widen, these friends, these relationships now have decades instead of semesters to grow. We have an opportunity to shape how our years at Harvard affect the rest of our lives, socially, personally, and professionally. We can make this time even more valuable by maintaining the relationships we’ve made here and taking to heart all of the lessons we have learned, most of which have not been in the classroom...
...expenses that came along with the switch in technology meant that WHRB also required more funding from advertisements, but as long as the ends met, watching the bottom line didn’t affect the station’s repertoire. “We were operating at low financial margin, so we could broadcast things that we liked as opposed to those that would make it easier to sell advertising,” Menninger recalls. “I can’t believe that the station hasn’t changed to reflect a wider listening audience, but then...
...mightiest interest groups--automakers and other manufacturers, environmentalists, labor unions, farmers, oil companies, coal companies, utilities, the military, antitaxers and so on. A Washington axiom holds that it's always easier to do nothing than to do something. By that standard, tackling climate change, which would affect every industry and every private life, looks almost impossible...
...greater than last week when the average gallon of regular gas hit $3.21. But to get at the question of what consumers think about gas prices and how they view the effect on the economy, you have to dig a little deeper. For example, how do soaring pump prices affect our vacation plans? Visits to U.S. travel sites are down only 2% when compared to the same time last year; visits to airline sites are down only 3% compared to last year at this time, explaining my "extremely full flight." Consumers' short-term economic outlook might be reflected in overall...