Word: pays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students vote with their feet on which activities they believe most enrich their college experience. Those students who want to try Brazilian dance, for instance, ought to shell out $30 dollars each to support a program. If a student wants to read the Independent or Perspective, she should pay a quarter for a copy from a vending machine. If fewer people dance or read campus publication, market advocates say, that's just fine...
...instead be interpreted as a mere endorsement of ideological heterogeneity--a notion that very few members of a university community would oppose. Taxpayers, for example, foot the bill for some public financing of eligible political campaigns, finance maintenance of parks where anyone can hold a political rally, and pay the salaries of legislators irrespective of those legislators' views. In cases where students fees are redistributed by students themselves--as it is by the council's well-run Finance Committee--all students have a voice, through their elected representatives, how money is distributed. Student fees, at Harvard anyway...
...wants, and it couldn?t let this deal pass by.? The big Internet players, including the likes of America Online and Lycos, are in a race to strategically position themselves at the crossroads of computer, TV and telelephone information services. And so as long as investors are willing to pay for their high-priced stocks, the companies are willing to pay for high-priced new properties -- even if, as in Broadcast.com?s case, a profit has yet to be turned...
...traffic-control towers, improving navigation and ensuring that even a cow-pasture airport could operate safely. By the end of the century, the same basic technology was being used to steer spacecraft, track storms and help police catch speeders--proof that even the most arcane science can pay very pedestrian dividends...
...decided now is that we'll identify, assess and honor a much wider range of human abilities than just whatever it is that IQ tests measure. That's the theory. The practice is that IQ testing--cheap, consistent and established--is still ubiquitous. Even the attempts to supplant it pay IQ the tribute of accepting its frame of reference. We have got used to trying to understand what goes on inside people's head in terms of "intelligences" and "quotients," and there doesn't seem to be any way to put that particular horse back in the barn...