Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present program: departments must offer every incoming student a "need-related" sum above or equal to a minimum level; continuing students are promised at least that income for their second year; admissions (and hence financial aid) policies assume that everyone admitted into a program will graduate. The latter point is especially Important-it marks the difference between Harvard's plan and that of universities where high attrition rates reduce incoming classes by half or more...
...Committee only makes passing references to the two graduate appeals boards, the teaching Fellows Appeals Board and the Financial Aid Appeals Board, and define the latter too narrowly Access to appellate procedure is vital to the welfare of any healthy institution and the existence of these boards should be more widely publicized Its task should include institutions and enforcement of existence of these boards should be more widely published. Its task should include interpretation and enforcement of existing guidelines, not just wavering them (which is how the Report defines its function...
...have always preferred Coca-Cola to Pepsi, finding the latter much too sweet and thin. Most of all, I dislike the citrus-oil flavor I seem to detect in Pepsi. And though the new Coke approaches the sweetness and thinness of Pepsi, it does not have the lemony aftertaste. Therefore, I still prefer Coke. I suspect that those who have preferred Pepsi will continue...
...Reynolds also explained why Jackson avoided any direct challenge to Walter F. Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Convention, despite the latter's fear that Jackson might try to split the party. As Reynolds put it, "Jesse just took the high road" on such political issues...
JACKSON'S ARAB alliance has equally insecure roots. While the reverend now claims to repudiate the PLO, in 1984 he decried the extradition of a Palestinian terrorist for prosectution in Israel, where the terrorist had committed numerous crimes. Jackson also defended Andrew Young upon the latter's expulsion from the U.N. after meeting with a PLO member, and Jackson blamed the American Jews for Young's dismissal. The reverend accused Israeli Prime Minister Begin of being a racist, and was quoted as rebuking Americans for worrying too much about the Holocaust, while there are many other atrocities, such...