Word: shoulder
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...middle class and entitled to outright grants. Due to the school's particular pool of applicants, "at Lehigh we have more kids on financial aid from families earning more than $75,000 than from families earning less than $15,000." No longer able to depend on Washington to shoulder a bigger burden of aid costs, Lehigh has been forced to increase its contributions from $2 million to $18 million over the past decade. Some smaller colleges actually spend more on aid than on faculty salaries. "Something radical has to happen," says Likins. "The current system is broken...
Like everyone else here, I left a substantial existence at home. I remember the familiarity with which I would walk across our high school parking lot after the final bell, shirt untucked and backpack carelessly flung on my shoulder. It was easy to be happy then, when I knew the ways of the old place and had adjusted accordingly. I could go through entire weeks without a serious worry, and that is pretty impressive, if you know how much I worry...
...squeeze out the risk factor, you also squeeze out a number of debatable lending opportunities. Only people with perfect records will then get the upper hand. But few of us have perfect records." Nor do banks relish the thought of having federal examiners constantly looking over their shoulder. "When you're sitting here with regulators who are coming down and telling you to downgrade everything that isn't lily white, you have a problem," says Don McWhorter, president of Ohio- based Banc...
...speedy center, who was Harvard's third-highest scorer with 13 goals and 27 points last year, said he finally learned this week that the ankle won't need surgery. "That was the best news of all," said Martins, who missed seven games last year with a shoulder injury. "The doctor said it seems to be healing well. I'm trying to keep upbeat but I'll be out for six or seven games...
...first written language, cuneiform, had appeared on small clay tablets, replacing the strings of marked clay tokens that merchants had previously used to keep track of their transactions. And at least one familiar superstition was established: when the Sumerians spilled salt, they would throw a pinch over one shoulder to ward off bad luck...