Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However dire the predictions, higher education leaders, government officials and consumer advocacy groups have started to examine ways to help control the debt problem...
...That, indeed, would be a neat solution. No delicate categories to demarcate, no slippery slopes to get tripped up on and none of the moral ambiguity. No Smithsonian perhaps, and no safeguarding of the nation's cultural heritage either; working class families might even have to pay discomfittingly higher ticket prices in private galleries...
Indeed, despite a growing trend in higher education to allow students and parents to put college payments on plastic, Harvard has quietly but firmly maintained a policy prohibiting tuition payment by credit card...
Other Ivy League schools like Princeton and Columbia have much higher percentages, 50 and 60 percent respectively...
...Buchanan could expect to clear the 5 percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have the effect of scaring everybody else away. The Reform party?s best long-term hopes, surely, are with a higher-rent crowd than that (think young, smart, successful and jaded, and you?ve got a constituency with a future). Buchanan?s would-be delegates, however, are already out in force, softening up the beach for when their man finally steps off the boat. Unless the Ventura/Trump/Weicker axis gets...