Word: lowered
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...place with high walls and many guards, depends on its inaccessibility to attract candidates for membership. It entices students from all over the world to apply and, with a remarkably high degree of reliability, to get rejected. The University knows it wouldn't have quite so many applicants; the lower the chances of getting in, the more desirable the possibility...
...result is an industry that deviates from the typical free market, filled with middlemen who lack incentive to lower prices, maintained by a group of student consumers held captive to their syllabi...
...cooperative, any profit must be returned to its members proportional to their purchases. The rebate for the previous fiscal year was announced in October as 4.5 percent. Since the standard Coop profit on a textbook sale is 2.5 percent lower than the rebate, the Coop actually takes a loss on textbook sales to Coop members...
...players in the industry--from the Coop, to publishers and authors, to professors, to even the financial aid office--are either unable or unwilling to lessen the burden of textbook prices, using technology to give students more choice over what to read may be the only way to significantly lower the bill. --Sasha A. Haines-Stiles contributed to the reporting of this article...
...business. Many proponents of so-called "responsible careers" on this campus would have me justify my career choice to a homeless Bolivian man. Since I just got behind the wheels of the bulldozer that will likely build that man a bigger, better, more efficiently constructed home financed at lower cost, I can justify my career very easily. Can those with the toothpicks do the same? Kaustuv Sen '99 is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. He is also The Crimson's reader representative...