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Higher education in the U.S. is big business -- a $100 billion business, to be precise, representing 2.7% of gross national product. No other nation can boast of so many and such different institutions: 156 universities, 1,953 four-year colleges, 1,378 two-year colleges and technical schools. More than half these are defined as private schools (although nearly all get some form of state or federal funding). Collectively, they employ 793,000 faculty members -- not to mention a supernumerary army of deans and other administrative personnel -- and accommodate 14 million students. One sign of the astonishing increase in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campus of The Future | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...although 15 percent of my classmates couldn't boast of the feeling, the rest of us experienced the right to benefit from--or to struggle with--a choice made wholly...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Finding Yourself in the Housing Lottery | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...would not boast of a career in which so many tragedies and setbacks have occurred," Little, playing Nixon, said. "I would only say that it is the true leader who stands alone...having marched up this hard road and won back your confidence, I ask you once again, my fellow Americans, to make me your president...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, THE ASSPCOATED PRESS | Title: The News Of the Weird | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

Given this large amount of support the success of HAND is quite modest. It can boast of at most 200 regular volunteers compared to the more than 1500 volunteers at PBHA. I wonder how HAND would do without all the support from...

Author: By Stephen Klasen, | Title: Public Service Serving Itself | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

Coming into this year, many hockey experts predicted that Harvard would boast a solid defense. Thanks to Pawloski that prediction has come true...

Author: By Celeste M.K. Yuen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Jerry Pawloski: A Proven Winner | 2/19/1992 | See Source »

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