Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's plan, which would raise the maximum income level at which families are eligible for federal tuition grants from $15,000 to $25,000, "would benefit a large number of Harvard students," Lyman said. These students would be eligible for grants of up to $1 600 a year. Lyman added that under the plan, more students would be eligible for subsidized loans, with interest paid by the government until the student graduates...
...beer-swillers run amok in the tundra. Former devotees of the magazine will recognize the scenario of the film from a sporadic series of Dartmouth frat stories that ran around 1972 or 1973. So what we have here is the Ivy League joke carried out on a fiendishly broad level. Boy, those 'Poonies sure know how to get their licks...
...Flexible less than half that size and one-thirtieth as expensive. It can sport every domestic convenience or be almost as spartan as a Conestoga. But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather or the garbage collection, you can roll right out. If the parking site at Paw Paw, Mich., palls, if tornadoes threaten Thunderwoman Park in Iowa, if Oso Ridge, N. Mex., turns out soso, there's always...
...siege mentality among the Italian people. Not only are bankers, captains of industry and politicians subject to abduction and killing, but virtually anybody suspected of being even comfortably "borghese" has become a possible target, as evidenced by the recent series of attacks on conservative newspaper editors and middle-level civil servants...
Finally, the businessman should recognize virtues in remaining fairly small. "If you make a certain-sized batch of a product," Heitz contends, "it usually turns out much better than if you make three or four times that much." He intends to level out his own production when it reaches 40,000 cases annually, up from about 35,000 this year...