Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really was a sergeant as scarred and obsessed as Barnes -- were in this group. On the other side was a progressive, hippie, dope- smoking group: some blacks, some urban whites, Indians, random characters from odd places. Guys like Elias -- and there really was an Elias, handsome, electric, the Cary Grant of the trenches. They were out to survive this bummer with some integrity and a sense of humor. I fell in with the progressives -- a Yale boy who heard soul music and smoked dope for the first time in his life...
Sympathetic Dallas fans abound. During his trial, one group of rapturous women was dubbed the "Dallas cheerleaders," and today others are pushing a petition to grant Dallas amnesty. They claim he did no wrong. Norma Hebbel, 61, explains, "Claude did what a lot of people would want to do. They should've given him a medal, not tried...
McEvoy has since slipped into the fourth position, but the duo's combined 2.00 g.a.a. is still 0.47 better than that of last year's national g.a.a.-leader, Crimson goalie Grant Blair...
...roots of this crisis are hardly complex. The Reagan Administration has tried relentlessly to cut funds and programs for education and has succeeded in drastically reducing grant programs for college students. So we should hardly be surprised that the new budget proposals would slash crucial student aid programs and would actually increase college students' dependence on loans. The budget would eliminate the $592.5 million federal work-study program and would tighten eligibility for Pell grants, forcing 1 million students--a third of the program--off the rolls...
...resisted cuts in education. Now it's time to turn the tables. The Reagan Administration has precipitated a crisis in higher education. The new Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate can respond by not only protecting the GSL and work-study programs, but also increasing federal grant programs to help mitigate the rising cost of a college education...