Word: generale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's more, seldom is the application rejected later on. In the very rare cases it is--if the student has already defaulted on another credit card or has a very bad credit record, says Coop Corporate General Manager Allen Powell--the student must make monthly payments on the amount already spent, but is allowed to spend more...
...experience as a proctor, DeGreeff says he sees plenty of first-years spending freely on chic wardrobes or stereo equipment, but in general, what brings students financial trouble are one-time major expenses like airfare for an emergency trip home, uninsured medical expenses, spring break trips, or travel for interviews...
This open-bathtub policy should be instituted at the highest levels of power as a general Harvard policy. Perhaps individual residents of suites with bathtubs could be allowed to reserve certain popular times, such as 9 to 10 in the morning, for use only by residents of the suites. However, outside of those times, their selfishness and arrogance should be curtailed. Residents of bathtubless houses should be able to use anyone's bathtub (even if it is already overcrowded at the time), any time, night...
...case of Theodore Roosevelt, the new young president (he was the youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the intoxicating feeling at the turn of the century that America had at last become a world power. Reagan, at the moment of his accession, embodied a general national desire to put aside all the self-doubt and gloom of the 1970s and recover the optimism and patriotism of the 1950s. So to put it very simply, our presidents should represent the best of us. And when they represent the worst of us--as in the case of Nixon...
...general's problem is that his coup, which was provoked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to fire him, is unconstitutional, and restoring civilian government would put the generals at risk of prosecution. His failure to produce a credible civilian administration leaves Washington and its allies facing an uncomfortable choice: Does the West opt to isolate and pressurize an unpredictable military junta in a newly nuclear power that exists in a perpetual state of low-key hostilities with its nearest neighbor; or does it work with General Musharraf in the hope that he can be coaxed back onto...