Word: terming
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Students work term-time and summer jobs to help pay for their tuition. Sometimes the obligation to make money for tuition prevents a student from taking a lower-paid, more educational internship or participating in a time-consuming extracurricular. Why couldn't this increase in federal aid help to decrease some of students' expected contribution--turning the focus of their days at Harvard toward education instead of finance...
...time, I would probably watch "The Cosby Show" a lot more, but I might not meet interesting people or do as many new things. And while I complain about my work, I will be satisfied when I'm done and can say, "I wrote 90 pages this term...
Autocrats seldom go quietly, and Boris Yeltsin is no exception. With his term of office scheduled to end next year, the Russian president has deliberately plunged his country into a new bout of political and economic turmoil, driven by a single objective. "Yeltsin's only concern is, and always has been, his own power," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He's prepared to hold onto power even if that means bringing catastrophe upon his country...
...latest crisis, provoked by the firing of popular prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, ends the president's eight-month cease-fire with the Communist-controlled parliament and sets the stage for a fierce political battle as his second -- and supposedly final -- term in office draws to a close. The legislature's term expires in December, emboldening it to face down a president whose autocratic constitutional power includes the right to summarily dissolve parliament and call new elections. "For the Communists, it's convenient to have a confrontation with Yeltsin in which he dissolves the Duma," says Zarakhovich. "It will make them...
...confrontation was launched by Yeltsin, and it suggests he has no intention of leaving office when his term expires in 2000. "Yeltsin doesn't believe he has to surrender power next year," says Zarakhovich. "If his physical condition allows it -- which is far from certain -- no constitutional requirements will get him out of office. The whole history of Yeltsin's presidency suggests that he'll find a way, such as provoking a confrontation and then declaring a state of emergency, to stay in power...