Word: slow
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They're back--and better. Faced with slow sales, General Motors last week rolled out offers for 0% financing on almost every model, including Cadillacs and Saabs. Chrysler, Ford and Toyota quickly followed (albeit with deals on fewer models). This time many 0% loans extend not just three years but five...
...schools do--it's O.K. to appeal. (Don't say "negotiate." Aid officers think it makes them seem like used-car dealers.) Seamus Harreys, Northeastern University's dean of student financial services, says he has seen many cases in which a parent's income has been hit by the slow economy. The key is documentation: unemployment paperwork, a letter from a former employer, a letter from your accountant if you're self-employed. If you have paid high medical bills, don't just say so; show the bills...
...just gun control that the suit has muddled and obscured; the NAACP’s suit has also, paradoxically, distracted from the very real issue of violence in minority communities. Many of the problems cited by the NAACP relate to the shamefully slow ambulance and police response times in low-income, minority communities; the statistics to which they point should be a spur for increased government funding to these communities, so that these problems can be effectively addressed...
...Faculty, overseers and corporation members make recommendations to the [governing boards],” Reardon said. “Then the speaker’s actually determined by that small committee. So it’s a slow process...
...what effect these changes will have on undergraduate life at Harvard. Certainly, with the removal of Lewis, the College has lost an advocate for extracurricular activity on campus and a proponent of social relaxation time for students. In his letter to incoming first-years this summer, “Slow Down: Getting More out of Harvard by Doing Less,” Lewis writes: “flexibility in your schedule, unstructured time in your day, and evenings spent with your friends rather than your books are all, in a larger sense, essential for your education.” Emphasizing...