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...Chief Powhatan began to feel his age. He became less decisive and more wishful for peace in his last years (he died in 1618). Meanwhile, the English population advantage back home began to take effect after 1610, when a reorganized Jamestown colony with better supply lines began to establish satellite settlements on Powhatan farmland. The squatters, as the Powhatan saw them, became so numerous that they could not be repelled. Even all-out war, which raged twice, did not stanch the flow of invaders...
...only betraying students but also the American government and the American dream. The monetary incentives for such behavior are reaching unimaginable proportions. The student loan industry is approximately a $14 billion per year industry, and it is growing. All it takes to create a cash cow is to establish a niche at a few universities. Ultimately it falls to colleges to resist the temptation to make a quick buck and stand up for their students. That universities are failing to do so has been brought to light both by investigations by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo...
...while reviewers use ZIP codes to “determine in a rough kind of way” whether applicants have faced financial hardship, they do not use the aid forms to establish in a precise kind of way whether applicants have encountered economic obstacles...
Like Gorbachev, Yeltsin hopes to bend the referendum to his own purposes. The second question on the ballot in Russia is whether the republic should establish a directly elected presidency. Voters are likely to say they do want to choose their own leader, and Yeltsin is likely to win an election. He will then be ready to do battle with Gorbachev on a more equal footing. With a huge power base and an electoral mandate, Yeltsin will face a national leader who has never been popularly elected but has massive institutional power at his command...
Before the referendum began, Anderson and representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 pushed Petersen to establish a threshold at which the majority obtained in the referendum would justify concerted UC advocacy efforts. At that time, Petersen told Greenfield that a simple majority of “50% plus one” would qualify as sufficient student support...