Word: numbers
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...work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...
East Asian legal studies is a very specialized field, according to Jim V. Feinerman, an associate professor at the Georgetown Law Center who did graduate work at Yale with Alford. In particular, Feinerman said, many people are discouraged from specializing in the area by the number of years needed to achieve expertise...
...what we should examine in addition to how exclusive or egalitarian these new fraternities will in the end prove to be, is their raison d'etre itself. Are these fraternities in fact merely a reaction to final clubs which pride themselves on being so few in number and membership...
...AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences and Zip Codes to try to identify gay or bisexual men at risk for the disease. Testing applicants for the AIDS virus gives companies additional protection against insuring infected individuals who will have high medical costs. As a result, a number of jurisdictions, including Washington and the states of Florida, Maine, Wisconsin and California, have legislatively limited such testing...
...player, collector of Japanese porcelain, was probably the man most responsible for the most beautiful train ride in the western hemisphere. It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...