Word: companionism
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...four times until they hit their target scores. Of course, this new service is accompanied by a "retention fee" for those who opt for anything but full disclosure. Along with the opportunities to receive rushed score reports, test-return, and to buy books with sample tests, all those companion industry dollars flow right into the College Board-ETS establishment. So were these recent changes in policy designed to provide colleges with better information about their applicants? Or is it about sucking more money out of high school students looking for the best possible numbers to put down on their transcripts...
Albee calls this woman "A," and in the first act we see her, a rich and somewhat senile nonagenarian, ensconced in her room with its elegant furnishings and silver tea service. She is joined by B, her hired companion, and C, the young woman lawyer who is trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents...
...roof of the Carpenter Center, which is between the Freshman Union and the Fogg Museum on Prescott St., Young and her companion climbed the outdoor stairs located on the building's Prescott St. side...
...vote this week. While approval there seems certain, the low-level alarm building outside Washington could force Republicans to rethink the plan and decide to pare back Medicare outlays by far less than $270 billion. Rising qualms among voters could also lead the Senate, whose Finance Committee passed a companion Medicare measure in September, to scale back provisions of the bill when it reaches the Senate floor...
...case, Cook County state's attorney Jack O'Malley obtained an involuntary-manslaughter indictment against a white police officer who, while off duty, allegedly shot to death a homeless black man last July. Gregory Becker is accused of having killed Joseph Gould after Gould approached him and a female companion for money...