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...chief innovation of the Harvard Plan over past student loan programs is its combination of Federal loan subsidies and guarantees with a University-administered income protection system allowing cancellation or deferment of outstanding debts for graduates in hardship situations. Because the government is willing to assume the risks for the loans, Harvard can afford to be flexible in protecting the future income of students...
...deadline. At the beginning of each of three successive years, starting in 1974, 18 of the preferences would automatically expire. These would range from widely criticized loopholes (such as the oil-depletion allowance) to favorite Middle American tax breaks (deductions for home-mortgage interest payments and property taxes) to hardship benefits (double exemptions for the blind and the elderly). Mills does not favor dropping all 54 provisions; he just wants to force a thorough congressional review of the laws...
...suicidal pattern that only Choron considers is the recent rise of such deaths among teenagers. Drugs and cultural dislocation seem handy enough explanations. But the fact stirs the question of how in youth, the heart first acquires a residual trust in life strong enough to carry it through later hardship...
Faulkner's story was not one of his best, but it was far from as mawkish as what Foote (who was also responsible for the screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird) has homespun out of it. The farmer undergoes every conceivable trial and hardship. When the woman dies soon after giving birth, the farmer devotedly raises the child (Johnny Mask) as his own, only to see the law return him eventually to his natural father. But like Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury, the farmer endures. Foote's script and Anthony's leaden direction transform this...
...which not only earned $105 million but also provides the large cash flow vital to an expanding company. The settlement was almost identical to a proposal made by the company in 1970-which McLaren then flatly rejected. Moreover no court has allowed a company's plea of economic hardship to excuse an antitrust violation-which was the basis for Ramsden's recommendation and presumably McLaren's change of view. The antitrust laws are designed to protect competitiveness in business, not to protect shareholders. The out-of-court settlement also cut off Supreme Court clarification of whether...