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...with the choice of delaying college or attending cheaper and less prestigious schools, or missing out altogether, some families engage in a crash course in creative accounting and moral reasoning -- and by mastering the former, fail miserably in the latter. An industry of financial advisers is developing to help steer parents through the aid process, which often means cutting some ethical corners. Some companies charge parents fat fees to "guarantee" funding, often by showing families how to shift assets and hold down reportable income so that they qualify for more...
...speed trains like those in Japan and France, Amtrak would have to lay hundreds of miles of expensive track. Instead the railroad is testing this new fast train, the X2000, on loan from Swedish State Railways, which can use existing tracks. Wheels on opposite ends of each car that steer independently and a computerized hydraulic system that tilts the carriage let the train take curves at high speed...
...this happening to you, ask questions about the job they have available, and discuss your qualifications for it. Don't be passive. Don't answer questions in monosyllables. Be informative, direct, and succinct in your responses. Steer the interviewer into discussion of your interest in the company...
Both LaRocke and David L. Duncan '93, who also intends to seek the council's stop position, said the council should steer away from political issues and concentrate more on service and improving student life...
...feeding begins. Guards select about 20 people from the front rows and steer them toward the food vats, six huge oil barrels cut in half and fitted with wire handles. Working quickly, Somali servers ladle out two large cupfuls of steaming Unimix, a brownish mixture of maize, beans and vegetable oil, for each person. Suddenly, an elderly woman rushes forward, inadvertently knocking the steaming ration from a small girl's wizened hands. The child howls in pain and anger: the gruel is scalding hot (several other children display peeling scars from previous burns), but far worse, the day's only...