Word: chasms
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...result, some educators fear, will be a widening chasm between a few richly endowed institutions able to buy the very best applicants and a growing legion of poorer colleges, public and private, forced to use scarce money to attract good students--money that might be better spent on a new science lab or faculty salaries, as well as on scholarships for the needy. Says Professor Gordon Winston, co-founder of the Project on the Economics of Higher Education at Williams College: "We're going to be using up these resources on the rich kids and not have any left over...
...result, some educators fear, will be a widening chasm between a few richly endowed institutions able to buy the very best applicants and a growing legion of poorer colleges, public and private, forced to use scarce money to attract good students--money that might be better spent on a new science lab or faculty salaries, as well as on scholarships for the needy. Says Professor Gordon Winston, co-founder of the Project on the Economics of Higher Education at Williams College: "We're going to be using up these resources on the rich kids and not have any left over...
...There was never more than a ghost of a chance even under the Clinton Administration that the agreement would be ratified by a skeptical Senate, so some feel that Bush's forthright stance has brought a hidden chasm out in the open. French Environment Minister Voynet suggests that the U.S. decision could have a catalyzing effect. "The reaction has been critical throughout the world," says Voynet. "Even countries that have traditionally and openly been close to the U.S. position, like Canada and Australia, haven't followed its lead. Following the failure of the Hague conference we had some doubts about...
...over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
...study just released by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a disturbing chasm between parents and kids about just how effective family talks can be. Even though 66% of parents of eight-to-11-year-olds said they had talked to their kids about guns in school, only half of their children remembered having such a conversation. Parents should bring up topics frequently but naturally, so kids learn that difficult subjects can be freely and easily discussed at home...