Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several grant recipients who traveled far and wide to do research say that their thesis would be incomplete without the information gathered abroad...
...first step in Harvard's long-range planningwill be a study, funded by an outside grant, toinvestigate what the latest and most usefullibrary technologies...
...list includes a study grant for descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and a scholarship for left-handed freshmen enrolled at Juniata College. According to the book, the donors were a left-handed couple who met in their first year on Juniata's tennis team...
...funds for any new construction of public housing and only reluctantly spared a program which would enable local goverments to help landlords rehabilitate low-income rental units. At the same time, the Administration, for the seventh year in a row, tried to fully drop the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program, which aims at encouraging private development of low-income housing in distressed areas. Each year the Congress, Democratic House and Republican Senate alike, stopped the Administration...
...social leveling that uniforms can sometimes accomplish is being sought by some inner city schools as well. At Helene W. Grant elementary school in New Haven, Conn., uniforms are just being inaugurated for this school year. Detroit's Mumford High School is raising a ruckus by handing down a get-tough dress code aimed at eliminating flash. The code's language is starchy enough for a military academy ("Misdirected students preen about, modeling flashy, expensive clothing and exerting little energy in their academic pursuits"); on the proscribed list are leather coats, jogging outfits, shorts, designer glasses, designer jeans and "custom...