Word: comparison
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...full cost through the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, a non-profit state organization created by the state legislature in 1982 to provide inexpensive student financing programs. The College’s Financial Aid Office’s (FAO) Web site, moreover, seems to give a fair side-by-side comparison of all the available loan options while refraining from advertising any specific private programs for those ineligible for federal and state loan programs...
...negotiating a preferred lender agreement does not excuse financial aid offices from fully informing students about their options and the different incentives that various lenders offer. When asked why more comprehensive loan comparison data isn’t available in a brochure or on the HLS Web site, Ryan cited time and space limitations, saying that “we just don’t have it put together,” while dismissing the University’s preferred lender agreement with Citibank as irrelevant. Moreover, University Financial Aid Liaison Officer Laurie A. Hogan told The Crimson that...
...national referendum on him and his performance. In the latest Washington Post--ABC News poll, 31% of those surveyed said they will use their congressional votes to register their opposition to Bush, which was almost double the percentage who said they felt that way before the last midterm. By comparison, only 17% said they plan to use their vote to show support for Bush. And Democrats are stoking that sentiment in ads like the one the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is running on television in Connecticut's Second District, in which an announcer intones: "Rob Simmons said...
...search engine to the toolbar, Firefox directs you to a page that only someone with a few years of college computer science classes would understand. Microsoft, on the other hand, gives you a clear three-step instruction. In seconds, I added Froogle, Google's web-shopping comparison site, to IE7's list of search engines...
...match the fight on the ground in Iraq. "U.S. forces have never been defeated in a fight at platoon level or above and we never will," he told a military group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...