Word: stipend
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...official prospectus, to prepare "ethnic minority college students who are interested in medicine and dentistry as careers and are disadvantaged in their pursuit of these careers." The 150-odd students in the program each year are all on full scholarship, getting free room, board and tuition and a $500 stipend in lieu of the money they would otherwise be earning in summer jobs. Most of the program's graduates end up in med school...
...called her in and asked her to withdraw from the federally-funded program and accept what they called "alternative funding" and to go the regular Summer School instead. She refused, and now says Crooks's alternative funding offer--which included free room, board and tuition and the same $500 stipend that students in the Health Career Summer Program get--was an "outright bribe...
...alleged bribe, she said, consisted of an offer to match the benefits of the special program--free room board and tuition, and a $500 stipend--in the regular summer school...
...debate intensified last month when Congress approved a bill increasing Social Security benefits by 11% this year-7% in April and the rest in July. That means, for example, that the average monthly stipend paid to an elderly couple will go first from $277 to $296 and then...
Harrington said his other objections to the plan are the extent of the merit-based awards, the $1000 gap between a student's scholarship and his expenses, the elimination of a fall term stipend, and the failure to adjust awards to rising costs due to inflation...