Word: grads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the printer's fragile filament got tangled or the computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government and economics concentrators hunched over the displays, ever-conscious of the vultures peering over their shoulders and none-too-subtly checking their wristwatches...
...first source of funds for education expenses." Its goal: to tighten standards of loan eligibility and require larger family contributions to college costs. Under present law, any student can obtain an annual loan of up to $2,500 for four undergraduate years (plus $5,000 for a year of grad school). Parents can borrow an additional $3,000 to help foot college bills that at schools like Harvard, M.I.T. and Stanford next fall will exceed $10,000 per annum. Currently the Government not only guarantees repayment, it pays banks the difference between the 9% interest paid by students...
Aelion said he could not pinpoint the reason for Harvard's sluggishness, but added that many students have "a kind of 'tunnel vision'--college, grad school, job, with no interruptions...
Just 2½ years ago, she was Lisa Halaby, daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman...
...engineers to view graduate schools as an unnecessary expense. Mark Gorski, 24, a 1980 B.S. in mechanical engineering from Tulane, had five job offers before deciding to join San Francisco's Bechtel Power Corp. to pursue his special interest in power plant design. If you go on to grad school, he says, "you lose two years' salary that you can never make...