Word: pelle
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...eligibility for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL's) to those students whose families earn less than $32,500 per year, without any other regard for financial need. For families with more than one student in college or with several dependents, the arbitrary limit is insensitive and unjust. Further, funds from Pell Grants, College Work Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and National Direct Student Loans could be restricts, to families that earn less than $25,000. Under these limits, one million fewer American students would be eligible for GSL while 800,000 fewer would receive Pell Grants. All of these programs should...
Other proposals of special concern would reduce Pell grant eligibility and cap total federal grants and loans for each student at $2000, Miller added...
Most of the more than 4000 Harvard undergraduates now on GSLs and a majority of the almost 900 students receiving Pell grants would be disqualified from the program under the proposals, said Miller...
...North Carolina (D) Jim Hunt (D) 809.088 48 79 E--Jesse Helms (R) 869.287 52 Oklahoma E--David Borens (D) 707 717 76 84 Bill Croner (R) 212.217 23 Oregon Marge Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina Melvin Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler (R) 134 720 74 Tennesee E--Albert Gore Jr. (D) 959,238 60 97 Victor Ashe...
...years by insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving a lecture on philosophy at Harvard in May, "he might have...