Word: aides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money will be used to fund the already-implemented increases in financial aid, to hasten current construction projects including repairs to the library system and the building of the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies and to support Faculty research. Aside from the very helpful increase in financial aid funding, students will see little change in their everyday lives as a result of this larger payout...
...just a little wider and pouring some millions into addressing student concerns: freezing tuition levels at current rates for the next few years; improving student facilities, such as the woefully backward Malkin Athletic Center; hiring more professors to lower the student-faculty ratio and continuing to strengthen the financial aid program...
...Kaustuv Sen's "In Defense of Business Careers" (Opinion, Dec. 1): Almost no one would refute that long-term economic growth eventually benefits almost all consumers, but I question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
...suggest that up to 75% of Americans back mercy killing, though most state efforts to make it legal have not succeeded. Voters in Oregon passed a Death with Dignity Act by a 60% majority last year, making it the only state to legalize assisted suicide. California and Washington defeated "aid in dying" referendums in the early 1990s. And Michigan rejected an assisted-suicide initiative this year by a landslide of 71% to 29%. (No state allows the sort of mercy killing that Kevorkian aired last week.) Courts have largely bowed out of the issue. In 1990 the Supreme Court held...
...still apply only to public colleges within the taxpayer's state. What if Junior gets accepted to Harvard? You can get your contributions back. But some states refund only principal, beating you out of years' worth of investment gains. And state prepaid plans make it tougher to get student aid because the money is held in the student's name. With savings plans the money is in a parent's name, where it counts less heavily in student-aid formulas--and you can set aside as much as $100,000 for expenses at any U.S. college...