Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Princeton's financial aid increases triggered other increases at Stanford, Yale, MIT and eventually Harvard, which last fall initiated a massive financial aid increase designed to give back $2,000 in loan or work-study debt in exchange for grants...
When you're one of the state's top high school quarterbacks, fall Saturday afternoons aren't any time for thinking about college football...
...Wilford] had an excellent spring and showed no drop-off in preseason," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "Kids develop at different rates and last year the passing game took a fall while Brad kept coming and coming...
...Shays-Meehan bill passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by a Republican filibuster. Yet the House debate has finally arrived, and the Senate is scheduled to consider its version, sponsored by Sens. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell D. Feingold (D-Wisc.) later this fall. After so much talk and so many failed promises, it is high time that Congress reject the potential for corruption in the current system and cast a vote for reform...
...social services are the results of "compassion"; rather, they are part of the social compact that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people were unemployed.) To send those who are counted among that four percent to private charities is to treat them as beggars rather than citizens. We may not need a complete cradle...