Word: jeffreys
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Possible innovations include group concentration meetings and individual meetings with department faculty members. Dunster House Senior Tutor Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who made the proposals, said such meetings could help students become more comfortable with their concentrations at the beginning of sophomore year...
...Social Security system that seems to assure only that the young will never draw out anything like the amount they are required to pay in? "I don't have a grudge against older people collecting Social Security because the Government told them to expect it," says Law Student Jeffrey Rosen, 28. "But what about us? Something has got to be done...
...Jeffrey's is a generation that viewed progress as an American birthright, only to discover its expectations vastly exceed its prospects. For the past 15 years, even as their parents grew more financially secure, young workers have faced declining real wages, rising taxes, high interest rates and prohibitive housing costs. At times, the Government seems to be conspiring against them. During the Reagan Administration, payments to the elderly have risen 35%, so that now more than a quarter of all Government spending goes to the 12% of the population who are 65 or older. Meanwhile, America's infant-mortality rate...
...timers. Robertson is bringing in new voters, but they are people who have been specifically mobilized by a sense of mission, by the feeling that they must "take back" this country for God. The politicizing of the religious right has been going on for decades, as Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe document in their forthcoming book, Televangelism, Power, and Politics. The Robertson voters are first-timers for reasons that make it unlikely that they will be one-timers...
Harvard swimmers also shattered three pool records in Ithaca, bringing its Teagle Pool total to six. Senior Co-Captain Chris Smith broke the 200 freestyle record, senior Jeffrey Peltier grabbed the 400 individual medley mark and freshman Scott Jaffe's time of 2:05.35 was best-ever for the course in the 200 breaststroke...