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...financial-aid feuds, however, are born not of downward mobility so much as rising expectations. Lehigh University president Peter Likins notes that many moderately wealthy families think they are middle class and entitled to outright grants. Due to the school's particular pool of applicants, "at Lehigh we have more kids on financial aid from families earning more than $75,000 than from families earning less than $15,000." No longer able to depend on Washington to shoulder a bigger burden of aid costs, Lehigh has been forced to increase its contributions from $2 million to $18 million over...
...professor resembles the broken-spirited figures in anticommunist plays by Pinter or Havel, ready to comply with anything just to end the humiliation and pain. His ugly spiral downward is at once outlandish and entirely plausible, and it had this audience member virtually leaping out of his chair in fury at the injustice and unreason. Whatever the bumps -- and there are a few in Mamet's staging of his text -- the power to incense, like that to sadden or amuse, is reason enough to cheer for the future of the theater...
...like voters, Wall Street can be fickle. The market is concerned that a Clinton landslide would give the Democrats too much of a license to tax and spend. Such a mandate could send stocks into a downward tailspin. On the other hand, bond market inflationary fears may be overblown. With unemployment high , and factory capacity low, sharp increases in wages and prices are unlikely...
...even with such excesses, current ideas for reform go too far. The Bush administration, charging that American society has become too litigious (this in spit of a downward swing in litigation since 1985), has called for a drastic overhaul of the civil justice system...
Workers at computer stations may position their hands over the keyboard with the sensitive wrist cocked upward or downward, compressing the tendons, ligaments and nerves that run through its narrow confines. People working with typewriters are more likely to hold their hands suspended straight forward, the wrists flat. Old-style typewriter keys also generally have a certain amount of spring, while computer keys often strike against a hard, unforgiving base. "These simple things sound trivial, but they are not when you're locked into one position, working all day long," says Marvin Dainoff, director of the Center for Ergonomic Research...