Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody who has to pay Harvard term bills was happy when Harvard recently announced a $500 increase in tuition, room and board costs for next year. However Harvard will cushion the annual blow by also increasing its financial aid awards so students on the bottom of the income scale will be able to cope with the increase. Those in upper income levels will probably just dip a little further into their bank accounts for fair Harvard without having to skimp much on spending elsewhere...
...with sewn-in mirrors and paintings of Krishna performing miracles and embracing Radha, his lover. Stained-glass windows cover one of the smaller walls of the rectangular room and provide a colorful backdrop for a light blue throne surrounded by white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain on the far wall and watches over devotees and visitors as they sit on an apricot-colored floor made of linoleum...
...television sets as well as the space shuttle. Northrop owns the George A. Fuller Co. of New York City, a large general contractor that also maintains airplanes. Planemakers are attempting to avoid concentrations of employment, dispersing some work from the West Coast and building aircraft in several states to cushion the economic impact of possible setbacks. McDonnell Douglas, for example, makes F4s in St. Louis...
...Crimson women never had problems handling the B.C. attack, keeping at least a six-point cushion throughout the contest. Captain Katherine Fulton, workig her way out of early season doldrums, registered a strong performance in Chestnut Hill, pumping in ten points and taking charge at the guard position...
...banged home a feed from Banks to make it 41-37, and Banks followed with a baseline jumper. Fine hit a reverse lay up in traffic with UMass out ahead 48-41 before the Minutemen began to pull away. Haymore's tap-in gave UMass a 60-47 cushion before he fouled out with a little over five minutes left to play...