Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another group of parents brought the same charges against the state and won. A specific restructuring plan has not yet been worked out, but Texas has agreed that it is unfair that the children of Edgewood, a lower middle-class residential district with low property values, receive an inferior education. One possible remedy under consideration is allotting funds based on sales tax instead of property...
...years beginning in 1978, Harvard offered two University-wide programs that helped senior faculty members buy houses from Harvard or in the Cambridge area by providing low-interest mortgages. Some tenure track professors at schools such as the Law School also reaped benefits from these programs. Former Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg bought a Cambridge house with subsidies from Harvard before receiving tenure from the Law School...
...ateaching fellow is having fun. "To be a goodsection leader you have to not take yourself tooseriously but take the job itself very seriously,"she says. "I tried very hard to have fun and letthe students have fun as well. In a certain senseyou have to try to be low key about the teaching,that's what is important."CrimsonDavid C. VanA panoramic view of Harvard and itsneighborhood...
...main reason undergraduates were barely affected by the market's decline is that the entry-level positions seniors will fill are low-paying, short-term jobs that companies can afford to keep offering, observers...
Remember Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian expatriate who was permitted to play a central role in the ill-fated U.S. weapons-for-hostages deal with Iran, even though CIA lie-detector tests indicated that he was not to be trusted? After months of lying low, Ghorbanifar has been telling contacts in the U.S. that he was the intermediary who brokered the deal between Paris and Tehran that resulted in last month's release of the remaining three French hostages in Lebanon...