Word: pelle
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Congress has also approved cutbacks in the so-called Pell Grant program for low-income students. The approximately 1000 Harvard students receiving these outright subsidies will receive a maximum of $1670 next year, down from $1750. Other students who qualify for special National Direct Student Loans will have to pay 5-per-cent rather than 4-per-cent interest...
...process amend scores of existing laws -that extensive analysis will be required to determine just what they contain. Some provisions, though potentially important, escaped national attention during the debate (see box). Moreover, in the Democratic-controlled House, after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable hand-scrawled passages and some outright errors. Said a frustrated House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "Nobody knows...
...premieres received the best performances. The Delius, completed in 1910 and first performed in 1919, proved a major discovery. The perfumed, sensuous score is characteristic of this British composer who spent much of his life in France and suggests Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in its allusiveness and emotional restraint. Yet there is also a distinctly modern sensibility at work in the opera's structure-eleven scenes (or "pictures," as Delius called them) strung together with orchestral interludes...
...Japan's pell-mell rush to grow, so much of the nation's wealth has been invested in industry that little has been left over for anything else. Even such basic amenities as sewers and housing remain inadequate by Western standards. Housing space is so cramped that building plots cost up to nine times as much as they do in the U.S. and room occupancy rates are 50% higher...
...Government also aims to cut back on Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (just renamed Pell Grants). These are not loans but flat annual awards of up to $1,750 given to notably needy students. To qualify for a Pell Grant, a needy family must now contribute to each child's education 14% of its "discretionary income," i.e., what is left over after essential bills have been paid. The Reagan plan would increase that figure to 20%. It would further require that all grant recipients personally earn a minimum of $750 a year toward their education...