Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Professor of Economics and Government Alberto F. Alesina, Associate Professor of Mathematics Zhihong Xia, and Associate Professor of Physics Cumrun Vafa will each be granted $25,000 in the next two years through a Sloan Research Fellowship to aid them in their research...
...major factor behind this shift is cost. On average, private black colleges charge only about half the tuition levied by similar white schools. As student aid has been slashed, that has made a difference to college-bound blacks, most of whom require some form of assistance...
...Countess (Martha Warren) launches a plot against the Count (David Kravitz) who wants Susanna and doesn't return the Countess' love as he should. Basically, Susanna wants Figaro, the Count wants Susanna and the Countess wants the Count. Throw in a case of a lovesick teenager (Cherubino), recruited to aid in the scheme by the women, and a subplot where the orphaned Figaro learns the identities of his real parents, and you get some really dangerous liaisons...
Granted, as officials in the University's financial aid office are quick to point out, the immediate effects of the tuition hike will be offset by increases in grants to students. Unfortunately, however, the effects of a 6.5 percent tuition hike are not quite so easy to gauge. A student from a modest-to low-income background may very well be irrevocably dissuaded from applying to Harvard by the news of another large tuition hike...
...raise tuition-prices, others feel compelled to follow this trend and increase costs by similar amounts in order to keep up with the competition. Unfortunately, many of these schools cannot afford to be as generous as Harvard is in helping to alleviate the effects of such increases through financial aid...