Word: plans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some schools at the most expensive end of higher education--those that like Ivy League members charge more than $15,000 in tuition, room board and fees a year--plan tuition raises together, often before such financial information is publicly available; the same schools jointly raise tuitions frequently to harvest the prestige tied to expense; a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges known as the "Overlap" group meets annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They...
Despite Gorbachev's original inclination to take quick and drastic action, he hesitated to go as far as some had demanded, and initiated the bargaining session that sharply reduced the scope of the emergency plan. After the vote, Gorbachev seemed to recognize that he had presided over a new chapter in Soviet history. "I think we've done the right thing," he said. Even the more moderate measures may help cool the rash of strikes. More important, one of Gorbachev's crucial reforms seemed to be working: an elected legislature had debated and bargained its way to a sensible compromise...
...week's end Texas Governor Bill Clements and other state leaders were getting ready to appoint a special study group to prepare proposals for the legislature, which must come up with a new school-financing plan by May 1, 1990. Everything from a hike in state sales and tobacco taxes to a first-ever state income tax is expected to be on the table. Similar cases are pending in Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and New Jersey. These efforts to equalize spending within states, however, may be just warm- ups for a far more radical notion: equalizing spending...
...helter-skelter quality of the plan was hardly enough to coax the U.S. into precipitate action. Instead, the Administration's prudent response was in keeping with the policy it has been enunciating for months. Bush, while he has repeatedly urged the P.D.F. to overthrow Noriega, has also maintained that the Panamanians must solve their own problems, with Latin leaders applying diplomatic pressure and the U.S. providing moral support...
...German Democratic Republic celebrates its 40th anniversary, thousands of its citizens ride the freedom train to the West. -- Taking a lesson in democracy, Soviet legislators reduce the scope of a sweeping plan to ban all strikes...