Word: millsapses
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...assuring them loan payments would amount to no more than $50 a month. Instead, they wound up with a second mortgage and monthly payments of $148 for 15 years, a burden that strained their modest income until, less than a year later, they had lost their house. But the Millsapses along with eight other families that were hustled in the same scheme, brought a RICO suit and last July won a $115,000 collective settlement. "Congress believed that private victims of fraud are also entitled to relief," says former Federal Prosecutor Charles Wehner...
Pittman went off to nearby Millsaps College and became a deejay there; offered better radio jobs in Milwaukee, Detroit and then Pittsburgh, he kept transferring to new schools. Despite a strong interest in sociology, he never did finish college, but at 20 he became the program director of NBC's...
Recognizing her skills as well as her birthday, her home state of Mississippi declared a Eudora Welty Day. In Jackson, the capital and her home town, Millsaps College tossed a three-day "Southern literary festival" honoring the occasion. The affair drew pipe-smoking academics, fellow successful novelists and short-story...
The top "smaller comprehensive universities" were Colby-Sawyer, Millsaps College in Mississippi, and Evergreen State College in Washington. Question: What are the top five undergraduate universities in the nation? Stanford 48.8% Harvard 47.6% Yale 37.8% Princeton 28.0% University of Calif.-Berkeley 24.4% Source: U.S. News and World Report, November 28...
The figures of mere growth are somewhat misleading, since they are based largely on the proliferation of M.B.A. programs at institutions like Los Angeles' Woodbury University or the Millsaps College School of Business in Jackson, Miss. Many schools have also started abbreviated M.B.A. programs for experienced executives. Already there...