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...cost of the school the student attends, but the SEOG money goes directly to the schools to allocate as part of their financial aid program and is therefore sensitive to the costs of each school. Most students in higher-cost schools borrow money so they are more apt to take advantage of the open eligibility for the loan program...
Because the F-16 is so quick, a pilot swooping down to shoot up a column of trucks is apt to see a brown blur as he races over the ground. So, for strafing runs, there is a computerized control system that will hold the F-16 on target as its guns fire away, 6,000 rounds a minute...
Barring an upset, probably General Romeo Lucas Garcia, a former Defense Minister, will win. In any case, Guatemalans classify their elections almost like French wines: '66 and '70 were fairly honest years, '74 was widely regarded as a fraud. On that basis, '78 is apt to be an interesting, possibly violent year...
Although princely pieces still command princely sums, the days when royal emissaries vied for a queen's collection of Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class?and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
...this time of year especially, weather is on everyone's mind-and on everyone's tongue. It is Topic A everywhere, more apt to be chatted about than money, food, sex or even scandals. Nor is it regarded as trivial small talk-"the discourse of fools," as an English proverb has it. Indeed, it is fodder for the conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather...