Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East European country defying its Warsaw Pact brethren and openly collaborating with the West to aid and abet refugees in their flight to freedom...
...Germany before granting legal exit permits for many of its citizens. This year alone, Bonn is expected to pay East Berlin $200 million for refugee resettlement. For all of Hungary's righteous indignation, however, it is believed that quiet promises were made by Bonn that will translate into generous aid...
...would rise an average of 9% this fall, Kellie Kenner raced for her calculator. Since the 20-year-old junior entered Emory University two years ago, her total bill, including tuition, has jumped from $13,900 to $16,100, an increase of almost 16%. Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school this year -- $2,000 more than in 1987. To help make ends meet, her mother recently took...
...mount, many parents suspect that institutions are kicking up their fees at will, knowing that families will pay almost anything to give their child the cachet of a Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
Cuts in federal student aid during the Reagan years have also taken a toll, forcing schools to contribute more from their own coffers. Like other labor- intensive businesses, colleges feel the bite of rising fringe benefits. At Brown, for instance, outlays for employee health-care premiums have quintupled since 1986. Then there is the need, fostered by feverish admissions competition, to provide more and better student services -- such as tennis courts and state-of-the-art gyms...