Word: bigs
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Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...
...YORK--Wall Street averted another Black Monday and had a Blue Chip day instead,as some of the heaviest trading in history produced a rally in big-name stocks and losses in many smaller issues...
Traders said the stock market benefited fromthe experience gained in the 1987 crash. The NewYork Stock Exchange managed to handle the heavytrading volume because of a big investment intechnology made after the crash...
Women's Update: After blanking the Big Red, 1-0, last Saturday in Ithaca, the Harvard women's soccer team will host nationally-ranked UMass (9-2-2) today at Ohiri Field for a 3 p.m. showdown...
...other patients is threatened. Says Bellevue's Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: "There is going to be hospital gridlock by 1990, because there's not enough long-term, short-term or emergency-care space for AIDS patients. I think they're eventually going to fill every hospital bed in the big cities...