Word: overlap
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...past two years, MIT and the eight Ivy League colleges had already garnered plenty of bad publicity about alleged price fixing. Under fire was the "overlap" process, in which the universities representatives collaborated to determine financial aid awards...
...Justice Department's efforts are only one factor in the ongoing controversy over overlap...
...would think that our community of supporterswould be somewhat distinct from others and whenthere would be some opportunity for overlap weshould be competitive," says Vice President forFinance Robert H. Scott. "But we have the bestschool and therefore the best opportunity toattract donors...
...more than 30 years the eight Ivy League colleges and M.I.T., as well as dozens of other private institutions, mostly in the Northeast, agreed that they would not try to outbid one another for talented students who needed financial assistance. Each spring this so-called Overlap Group, led by M.I.T. and the Ivies (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale), would share information about needy students accepted by more than one of the member schools, working out a standard financial-aid package. Last year the Justice Department charged that this practice violated U.S. antitrust laws by suppressing competition...
...Disease Control found two distinct epidemics caused by somewhat different strains of HIV in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Both epidemics started no more than four years ago, but one occurred mostly in intravenous drug abusers and the other started in female prostitutes. There was little overlap between the two groups...