Word: supportables
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...funds to students whose parents are in the lowest income quartiles. Less than 2 per cent are channeled to the top income quartile. There is no doubt that the redistributional characteristics of undergraduate student aid could be improved, but large numbers of low-income students depend on this support for their education. It is not clear what purpose would be served by driving these funds out of the University...
...Support of on-campus research accounts for 30 per cent of Federal aid to higher education, not 67 per cent as reported by Mr. Glassman. (See Table I) The sources of research funds by agency are shown in Table...
Contrary to Mr. Glassman's assertion that general aid to education is incompatible with America's ideology, $1.5 billion of Federal aid to education is for institutional support. The mechanisms for disbursing these funds are categorical grants for more or less specific pulrposes, but in most cases the effect is to provide general aid for any purpose the university desires. The effect is essentially to provide aid (through higher quality or lower tuition) to those enrolled in college, who tend to be relatively affluent. My personal feeling is that most of these funds would be better allocated to Federal scholarship...
...views of rugged mountains, long canyons and deep craters with white walls glinting starkly in the sunlight. By contrast, the cloud-swirled earth looked warm and hospitable as it was seen rising above the moon's horizon. Shots of alternate landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility gave support to Stafford's observation that they were "very smooth, like wet clay." The cameras also caught views that were not televised during the mission: Charlie Brown and Snoopy each shown against the background of the moon as they were preparing to dock...
Though the statement troubled some delegates, the 25-nation meeting declared that "the church and the world are filled with blatant institutional racism." They recommended economic sanctions against "corporations and institutions" that practice discrimination, and said that "guerrilla fighters struggling against racist regimes must be given the support of the church if all else has been seen to fail." Under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, a Methodist lay delegate, the conference added: "The church must," in certain circumstances, "support resistance movements, including revolutions, which are aimed at the elimination of political or economic tyranny that...