Word: ivans
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...Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college--and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students--who are the signatories to most college debt--rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30% of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...
...Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college - and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students - who are the signatories to most college debt - rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30 percent of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...
...patients treated had so severely damaged their corneas (the transparent layer that covers the iris) that conventional cornea transplants were no longer an option. Some 2,000 to 4,000 Americans suffer similar corneal scarring each year--from chemical burns, diseases or chronic inflammation, according to Dr. Ivan Schwab at the University of California at Davis, who led the U.S. team. The operation, however, cannot help those with congenital retinal or optic-nerve disorders...
...news media interpreted the withdrawal as a defeat for Israel and did not give a balanced view. With Israel located in a region that is the focal point of the three major religions, I guess Barak is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. IVAN K. SCHULLER San Diego...
...faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into a crowd, all ambitions, all faiths abandoned...