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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million on a pilot basis. Although the results of the pilot program are not yet in, the FY 1988 budget proposes to expand ICL into a major loan program funded at $6000 milion. The Education Department claims that under ICL "financially needy students would be able to borrow large amounts of money on manageable, income-sensitive repayment terms, and yet at no net cost to the Federal Government because there is no interest subsidy...

Author: By Ken Gewertz, | Title: Too Tough and Too Lean | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...study's author, policy analyst Janet S. Hansen, says that students are not aware of the financial risks they are taking when they borrow large sums of money to pay for college. In an economy marked by low inflation and slow growth in which the number of well-paying jobs for young people seems to be steadily declining, loan repayment will constitute a heavier burden in the future than it did in the 1960s and '70. "We should not take a caveat emptor attitude toward students," she says...

Author: By Ken Gewertz, | Title: Too Tough and Too Lean | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...suspended licenses for drunk drivers, the locks have mouthpieces into which drivers must exhale to measure their breath-alcohol level. The manufacturers, Guardian Interlock Systems of Denver and Safety Interlock of Carmel, Calif., claim that built-in safeguards make it difficult for drivers to use compressed air or borrow a breath of fresh air from a friend. One unsolved problem: how to prevent a tipsy driver from borrowing a car that has not been drunkproofed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventions: Drunkproofing Automobiles | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...host father if he could visit with her on a platonic basis. Although his host father always gave him permission to visit with the girl, one day Frusztajer said he could not see her anymore because she had acted improperly in not asking the family if she could borrow their American guest. "I thought I was being the perfect guest, but I guess I insulted the family by implying that their company was inadequate," Frusztajer says...

Author: By Brandon Bradkin, | Title: Going For The Gap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...notebook and walks 30 yards away and places the paper on the ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right ear, as if throwing a fastball. The spear sails up, too high, and at the apex, points straight skyward, and then collapses in the air, subsiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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