Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accepted the hardships heaped upon it. Recently, however, there have been signs that patience may be wearing thin. Last week more than 60,000 students and other demonstrators converged on the National Palace in Mexico City to protest a plan by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) to tighten entrance requirements and increase annual tuition fees from an average of 10 cents to more than $90 a student. Speakers exhorted the government to stop payment on its crippling $100 billion foreign debt, demanded that workers receive hefty pay hikes to cope with the country's 103% annual inflation rate...
...being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...succeeded in drastically reducing grant programs for college students. So we should hardly be surprised that the new budget proposals would slash crucial student aid programs and would actually increase college students' dependence on loans. The budget would eliminate the $592.5 million federal work-study program and would tighten eligibility for Pell grants, forcing 1 million students--a third of the program--off the rolls...
...government initiative that sparked the violent clash had seemed innocuous enough. Unveiled last summer, the package called for restructuring the country's 78 universities to make them more competitive. Each institution ! would be allowed to tighten its admission standards, increase its fees slightly (now less than $100 a year) and grant its own diplomas. At present, all those who pass the tough baccalaureat exam, which is given after secondary school, are guaranteed admission to a university on a first-come, first-served basis. Upon graduation from the university, students receive "national" diplomas that do not identify the school attended...
...when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...