Word: stipend
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...unconscionable. The former Navy Secretary and highly decorated Vietnam vet is trying to goad Congress into updating the G.I. Bill, whose benefits have failed to keep pace with the rising cost of a college education, by providing full tuition to a state university plus a $1,000 monthly stipend to all veterans who have served a total of two years in Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11--reserve forces included. His rationale for extending equal benefits to National Guard veterans: "Same battlefield, same soldier...
...wonder considering how maladroit Italian pols can be. On July 30, for example, Lorenzo Cesa, leader of the Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), had this response when a deputy resigned over a tryst with a prostitute in a Rome hotel: Cesa called for what he dubbed a "family reunion" stipend so parliamentarians can afford to spend more time with their loved ones. "Loneliness," he explained, "is a very serious thing." Meanwhile, not to be outdone, some center-left leaders have been sullied by leaks of intercepted phone calls with prominent financiers mired in a market-rigging scandal...
...York, where she and then husband Max Ernst had decamped to escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract style. "Jackson Pollock was Peggy's greatest achievement," Rylands says. "He was to Peggy what Kandinsky was to Solomon. She did everything...
...trains the PAFs to give academic advice as well as social support. It attempts to facilitate strong relationships between freshmen and upperclassmen, allowing the freshmen to seek help from those close to them in age and experience, with the upperclassmen reaping the rewards of their efforts through a monetary stipend.“It’s all about casual advising and forging friendships,” PAF Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 says. But herein lies the inherent problem. The informal approach to advising proposed by the administration is something rather inviting to students...
Unlike celebrities honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who leave with glamorous gift baskets and a gold-plated Oscar, recipients of the Recycling Awards walk away with a $1,000 stipend and an original piece of paper artwork handmade by Sally Vitsky...