Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next academic year, but only by a slim margin. Tuition and fees at Dartmouth will reach $18,199 next year, a rise of 6.5 percent. Tuition at Yale will rise 6.1 percent to $18,060, and Princeton students will pay $17,967, 6.2 percent more than they paid for their sojourns in New Jersey last year...
...later moved to the guest bedroom to make room for a large photorealist painting of motorcycle handlebars) is beyond computation. Chagall may have given more people their soft introduction to art dreams than any of his contemporaries. He was the fiddler on the roof of modernism. If he sometimes paid his spiritual taxes in folkloric sugar, it may not matter in the long run--for at Chagall's death one consults the paintings of his youth, whose wild eccentric beauty is indelible...
Despite the hussle of the Catamounts, Harvard got on the scoreboard first. Attacker Brad Raymond appeared to be covered by the Vermont defense in front of the net. He wasn't, and the, Catamounts paid...
...Griffin, the bid for Resorts is merely his latest exercise in empire building. The move follows by three months his acquisition of the Beverly Hilton, for which he paid $100.2 million. Among Griffin's other properties are four radio stations in New York and Connecticut and a national closed-circuit television system that broadcasts horse and dog races onto screens at tracks and betting parlors. His large California real estate holdings include a $20 million home and a 157-acre site on the highest spot in Beverly Hills, where he is building a mansion. He continues to run Merv Griffin...
...list of history's most successful land speculators were ever drawn up, first place would probably go to the Dutch settlers who bought Manhattan Island for $24 in trinkets. Second place might go to the Australian government, which paid about $280,000 for almost 1 1/2 acres, including a mansion and gardens, in central Tokyo...