Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's budget proposal sets a $4000 cap on aid to individual students, eliminates guaranteed student, eliminates student loans for students whose family incomes exceed $32.500, and prohibits Pell Grants and other forms of aid to students whose family incomes exceed...
While cuts in student aid threaten all college students. It is the students at private universities who will be hurt most directly by the proposed $4000 cap on total federal aid and-subsidized loans...
...Reagan Administration instifies these cutsaby suggesting that college students do not make substantial sacrifices to obtain their educations. But for most student, receiving financial aid, the cuts will not mean giving up stereos and Florida vacations, as Secretary or Education, William Bennett has suggested. The $4000 cap would affect precisely those students for whom such luxuries are only idle dreams, falling disproportionately upon poor and minority students. For many families, already pushed to the limits of their financial means, higher education would become an impossibility. To suggest otherwise indicates a willful lack of contact with reality...
...sponsors of the bills agree that they would only reinstate consumer and city protection waylayed at the federal level last year's federal legislation and rulings by the Federal Communications Commission (ICC) put a cap on a municipality's take of cable revenue a five percent...
...strengthened the foundation and resumed building the upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read...