Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also would encourage states to createcollege opportunity and tuition pre-payment plansin order to allow parents to pool their resourcesinto special interest-bearing accounts. Inaddition, in order to reduce the student loandefaults, which reached $11.1 billion in this pastyear, the Duke advocates an Education InsuranceFund, which would complement the existing GSLprogram and link repayment to the size of eachstudent's future earnings...
...Crimson staff considered endorsements for the presidential candidates who had backers on staff. None of the candidates garnered majority support, so all five endorsements will be run in the order of the amount of support that they received...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...
...speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that weight without gaining any more. But, researchers note, a sluggish metabolism does not explain all obesity. Overeating and lack of exercise...
...strife continued. Bakker handed over control of PTL to Jerry Falwell only to turn against him and charge that the Virginia Fundamentalist had duped him in order to grab his empire. PTL filed for bankruptcy. Falwell escaped from the mess last October, calling it the "Watergate of evangelical Christianity." But even as Falwell abandoned politics a month later, Pat ; Robertson jumped in, leaving his Christian Broadcasting Network to get along without his strong presence. Left personally unscathed in all the turmoil were more churchly TV preachers such as Billy Graham and Robert Schuller...