Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard recently implemented the Parent Loan Plan (PLP) which enables parents whose incomes range from $15,000 to $50,000 to pay tuition in monthly installments over eight years. First offered to the Class of '80, the program has helped to increase the percentage of middle income students who come to Harvard after being accepted...
...plan is like the classic response of the bureaucrat, or parent whose children are getting older and more independent--it's much easier to try to control, rather than to trust and have faith in the outcome. The faculty's solution to the muddled state of undergraduate education mirrors the kind of responses we are used to seeing in the rest of society. When the crime rate goes up, people cry for law and order and a larger police force--they don't try to eliminate the problems which cause the crime. Too much of our society tries to outmuscle...
...parent publishing company, headquarters is a somber neoclassical building of yellow Worcester stone on Oxford's Walton Street. An unincorporated business without stockholders, the press is owned by the university, and governed by 19 "delegates," Oxford dons picked for their ability to sift through scholarly manuscripts and select for publication the superior one in ten. The press's entire profits, $7.5 million last year, are plowed back into the production of more books...
Educating the "Modern" American Parent: Reflections on Past and Present--Steven Schlossman, University of Chicago, Agassiz Colloquium room...
...Newsweek, which paid $50,000 down for U.S. magazine rights before being undercut by the flagship daily of its own parent Washington Post Co., executives will wait to see how well Haldeman plays on the newsstands before figuring how much of the $75,000 balance they should pay. Times Syndicate officials, who had sold serialization rights to various publications for roughly $1 million, now estimate that, all in all, their take will be reduced by as much as $600,000. Times Co. officials were not yet certain that they had sufficient grounds to sue the Post Co., and Post...