Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, other state schools can use the lever of a full scholarship or low tuition to attract students from their home state. Still, Hoxby says, graduates from these schools would see their education as no bargain--over their careers, tier-three graduates will make a total of about $400,000 less than tier one graduates...
...course, none of the student groups clamoring for new recruits in Tercentenary Theatre at Monday's activity fair would admit as much. In fact, most go out of their way to stress what a low-key, unstructured organization they...
...mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds and a concentrated area of low pressure that surrounds a spiraling, eerily calm eye. Powerful, counterclockwise winds pick up speed as they move over and feed of off warm water, and when they reach speeds of 74 mph or more, the storms are reclassified as hurricanes. Unfortunately for residents of the eastern U.S., the Caribbean...
Scheck and Neufeld also want more laws allowing the wrongly imprisoned to sue for damages. Only half a dozen states currently have such statutes, and some have low caps--like California's $10,000 maximum. If Dennis Fritz had slipped and fallen in a government building, he could have sued for millions. After being incarcerated for 12 years for a crime he didn't commit, he can't sue for anything...
...Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions and an abundance of low animal cunning...