Word: needier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-heeled parents who pay the full freight at Penn help support not only other, needier students but also the tuition reimbursements of very comfortable professors. They pay again through federal taxes to help cover the costs of federal financial-aid programs. And if they live in Pennsylvania, they pay yet again, through taxes that not only produce the $36 million state appropriation that went directly to Penn last year but that also subsidize the state's public colleges and universities...
...just as it faces a flood of younger, poorer, needier children into state-subsidized day care, Wisconsin planned to reduce the amount it spends for each child--with consequences that would be felt throughout the day-care system. For one thing, the state proposed channeling more of this money to welfare families by reducing day-care subsidies to the working poor through higher co-payments and eligibility standards. (Some low-income families would have been required to spend as much as 46% of their gross income on child care.) The state also proposed a sliding-scale co-pay structure...
...created a voluptuous fantasy world and moved into it. Director Peter Jackson moves in with them; his fevered camera style communicates the rapture and peril of adolescent hysteria. This hurtling, upsetting film, based on a true murder case, has a thrillingly nervy performance by Melanie Lynskey as the darker, needier Pauline...
Wolf said Cambridge will be hurt by its already strong commitment to education if state funds are diverted to needier school systems...