Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eight is actually not a small number for a friendship group," Lewis wrote in the e-mail message. "It's large enough to accommodate most close friendship groups, including groups involving both men and women, but small enough to ensure that students from one block will get to know other students in the House and to enable the gender ratios to be well balanced everywhere in the future...
...first tier includes the entire Ivy League as well as Stanford and top small schools including Williams and Amherst...
...extensive survey which follows a small segment of the population through interviews over many years to provide a generational snapshot...
...However, one of the reasons that it takes so little time to make back the difference between tuition at a top-tier school and a tier-three school is the difference in tuition between private schools in tiers one to four is small...
...groups as "faith-based institutions," perhaps because "religious charities" seems too close to "religious right," a voting segment that Bush would like to win without public wooing. But his choice of words cannot veil the fact that the proposal would represent a philosophical retreat, not only from the small-government rhetoric of the 1994 Republican Revolution, but also from the modern social compact that America has developed since the New Deal. Handing off some of the government's programs to religious charities would not only endanger the programs but would handicap the charities and abdicate social responsibility for social ills...