Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long run, Harvard students should at least get the same 9 cent-a-minute rate after 5 p.m. that MIT students receive. In addition, Harvard should give its students a flat rate across the country, like most long-distance carriers, and do away with the current system where distance as well as time of day go into calculating the price. As well as simplifying the rate schedule, it would be a step into the modern age; Harvard is a national university, not a regional one, and should structure its prices accordingly...
...screen blood; however, I question the validity of the current methods of screening donors. Questions 5.6 and 5.7, in which women are asked if they have had sex in the last twelve months, even once, with a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, impose a flat ban on blood donation from gay men under the guise of protecting the public at large. The issue I have with this regulation is that it creates a false sense of security by supporting the notion that HIV infection and AIDS are exclusively "gay", and therefore, by protecting our blood...
Student telephone officials are still determining how the savings will be distributed, Grenier said. But telephone officials said the savings may mean the installation of an evening flat rate as low as 11 cents a minute to anywhere in the country...
distribute that savings," Grenier said. "We've got to make sure that it benefits everybody. A flat rate of 11 cents a minute would be phenomenal for people on the West coast, but for people on the East coast it wouldn't mean that much savings...
Recently, MIT students got a major decrease in their long distance rates when the institute negotiated with AT&T to get a flat rate of 20 cents during the day and a 9 cent rate after...