Word: higher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were holding a press event under a large 'Stop Robbing Social Security' banner, their own accountants were wistfully admitting that the GOP budget would in fact be "robbing Social Security" to the tune of $7.6 billion next year. The Congressional Budget Office, using more respectable accounting, calculated an even higher number of about $18 billion. Faced with that kind of shortfall, the Congressional Republicans chose a desperate and despicable strategy: fix the numbers, and let any attendant suffering fall on the poor...
...covered baseball each of the two years after '96, each year the team won the Ivy title and the NCAA play-in series, and won two games in the tournament, both times shocking a higher-seeded team in the process. The price was spending most of my April and May weekends with mild hypothermia, but the weather only lends flavor to my memories...
However, further smaller-scale studies--published in journals such as Pediatrics and Public Health--have documented a relationship between obesity and poverty among specific and varied segments of the homeless population. These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
...weeks into my life as a Harvard student, I am still overwhelmed by everything going on here. I hesitate to criticize this new community but the lack of education and awareness regarding sexual violence I have observed here is disappointing and frightening. As a community and an institution of higher learning, we need to address these issues assertively and work to raise the general level of concern about sexual violence at Harvard and elsewhere...
Cynics are already calling it MSMIT. Software giant Microsoft is funding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a five-year, $25 million research venture called "Project I-Campus" to develop technology to enhance higher education. Projects under consideration include the improvement of long-distance learning via the Internet, web-based virtual museums and "global classrooms...