Word: aides
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...carrot is Western aid to help reconstruct the war-torn region, and the long-term prospect of some form of involvement in the EU. The stick: The U.S. State Department today renewed sanctions against Belgrade, and warned President Milosevic that further repression of Albanians would have the by-now-familiar ?most severe consequences...
...whether this proposal will be realized in actual law is unclear. The proposal has many critics, including many Congressional Republicans, who say that the so-called "prior, prior year data" underestimates income, and will cause aid to be redistributed to less-needy families...
...financial aid changes at Princeton, Yale and Stanford attract more students from the middle class, it could potentially have an effect on the prestige of those schools, at least as measured by the rankings experts at U.S. News and World Report...
Robert Morse, who coordinates college rankings for U.S. News, said while he does not take financial aid into account in calculating rankings, he does use many of the potential effects these changes could generate to name America's number one college...
According to Morse, if as a result of increased aid, either the number of applicants or the percent of admitted students who choose to matriculate at these schools-known as the yield-rises, the selectivity rating could go up for Princeton, Yale or Stanford...