Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expenses are spiraling out of reach faster than college costs, which have been increasing about 7% annually. How is a family's nest egg supposed to keep up? A new special-purpose financial institution, the College Savings Bank of Princeton, N.J., is offering a novel solution: a certificate of deposit featuring an interest rate tied to an annual index of higher-education costs. Says Bank Chairman Peter Roberts: "With us, families have shifted the risk ((of rising tuition and inflation)) from the household to the bank." Even if a child skips college, the parents can still cash in the CollegeSure...
...peace process is stalled and may be dead even now. The Peres plan may offer the final chance to reach a pragmatic accord. Americans owe the Foreign Minister support in this difficult task...
...opined Mr. Dooley--the fictional Irish politician created by turn of the century New York columnist Peter Finley Dunne--in an essay satirizing the High Court's use of complicated judicial philosophies to reach decisions in accord with the politicians who appointed them. To Dooley these philosophies were just rationalizations...
...laser beams and nuclear-generated X rays proposed for the future, the six systems involved would be central to the initial deployment of any antimissile system envisioned by this Administration. Lieut. General James Abrahamson, head of SDI, is explicit about the purpose of Milestone I. "We'd like to reach a position where in the 1990s we will be able to go ahead with deployment," he says, "and to do that we need the enhanced confidence gained from additional testing." Equally important, the tests will give new momentum to SDI, making it more difficult for the next President to scrap...
...steel reinforcement rods may be enough to hold it in shape for many more months. When the time comes, sound taps for a 150-year veteran. But be not despairing. Its twin is still healthy and firmly rooted by the south entrance to the White House, and its branches reach up to the windows of the Reagan bedroom. Lyndon Johnson's Quercus phellos has leaped from 15 ft. to 50 ft. in 13 years. Just like the man who planted it, the willow oak seems determined to be bigger and better than anything else within sight. Dwight Eisenhower's Quercus...