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...scholarship, which can be a boon for families struggling to finance a college education, pays tuition (Harvard's tuition this year was $10,590), $350 towards textbooks, and all health and athletic fees, in addition to the standard ROTC contract, "all tax free," Welch says...
Most dish owners, however, are less interested in disrupting other people's TV signals than in ending the disruption of their own. When home receiving dishes first became available in 1979, they were a boon for rural residents who lived outside the range of cable hookups. With a dish-shaped antenna aimed at one of several communications satellites circling the globe, these viewers could watch not just satellite-beamed entertainment channels (which cable systems pick up with their own dishes and distribute to subscribers via cables), but foreign broadcasts, corporate video conferences, even the private transmissions of network programs like...
Administrators, faculty members and studentsyesterday praised the Aloians, saying their warmthand caring are a boon to the Harvard community...
...great boon of this proposal. Henceforth, as in Britain, only commoners will be allowed to sit in the lower houses, in this case meaning the House of Representatives and the Senate. No celebrities permitted. As soon as a person achieved that rank, he would, like a commoner become a peer in Britain, be sentenced to life in the upper chamber and oblivion...
...this activity has been a boon to at least one group in the U.S.: Hollywood distributors. The new competition will almost certainly drive up prices for U.S. shows on the international market. Says MGM-TV President Lawrence Gershman of the anticipated bidding wars: "It's going to be terrific." French viewers will wait a bit longer before deciding whether they agree...