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...access to far fewer resources," acknowledges William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial aid. "There's no question that the deck is stacked out there in the real world against those who come from blue-collar backgrounds. That can be seen very directly in the steep correlations between SAT scores and socioeconomic backgrounds...
...small inheritance prevented the family of Charles C. Savage '98 from receiving financial aid from Harvard, but steep tuition costs compel the sophomore to work 15 hours a week...
Another rainy afternoon has fallen upon the Yard, and that dreary lazy feeling is slowly beginning to retard any attempt to steep myself in the intricacies of fiscal policy or the wise words of Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61. No, I don't think Ec 10 will receive my attention today. Of course, wet afternoons aren't a time for study; they're a time for reflection...
Pulling into his local Texaco station, Don McCullough, a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, artist, blinked and looked again. The price for high-test gasoline had jumped overnight from $1.36 per gal. to $1.49. "I couldn't believe it," he says. Blame the steep increase on the Iraqis and a problem in a Philadelphia refinery, said the attendant...
...soap-as-satire, but no other serial has advanced the idea as marvelously as Melrose Place during its glory days--glory days that the current season, due to conclude in two weeks, has proved are long gone. The show will return in September, but its decline has been so steep--should it even bother...