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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since most professors do not examine a breakdown of their sourcebook's costs, the possibility of overcharging remains...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Question the SOURCE | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...took several months of badgering them all the time to get the breakdown," Crawford says...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Question the SOURCE | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...breakdown revealed overcharging pay-dirt: students had been charged for 35 articles which were not in the sourcebook, including a whopping $13.98 per sourcebook for one chapter...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Question the SOURCE | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...left [the production manager] a detailed message, but she wouldn't return my calls," Crawford says. "I didn't pursue it as persistently as I pursued the cost breakdown because I was so frustrated. I don't have time to keep calling them every day and every week...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Question the SOURCE | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Glassberg, a computer-software sales representative in Long Island, N.Y., used to dread her 12-year-old daughter's return from school each day--and the two-hour crying jag that followed. "She'd hold herself together all day, but the minute she got home she'd have this breakdown," Glassberg says. Glassberg has carefully built an after-school routine of household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Ritalin | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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