Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College has both met and exceeded our expectations by allocating $9 million more toward financial aid. Finally, students are reaping the direct benefit of President Neil L. Rudenstine's long hours of fundraising. Even better, the change will affect not only incoming students but also those of us already here...
Pundits may try to weave Glass, Smith, Arnett and Barnicle into a nice, tight problem in today's media, but in truth, the summer's most critical journalistic scandal has little to do with fabricated articles, however egregious those fabrications were. The real forces that push journalism toward fiction are the changes in the way that people get their news. With the rise of Internet and 24-hour news channels, the news cycle has irreversibly changed, putting a high premium on a network or newspaper's turnaround time--the idea is to get out a report or a commentary...
...past few years, then, the ever-present temptation toward sensationalistic news has taken on a new twist. Collaboration across various types of media (often known as "synergy") gives readers and viewers unprecedented access to information, but it also blurs the distinction between news and entertainment. The strict mores of the newsroom butt heads against the need to attract viewers and then to sell them the related products, regardless of whether they are fact or fiction...
...weeks, the Financial Aid Office will be contacting each family on assistance to inform them of a redistribution in student packages. The total amount of aid will not increase, but the amount of grant money will--by $2,000. Students will have the choice of putting that money toward a decrease in loan debt or the elimination a term-time or work-study...
...entire sum of outside scholarships will also now be put toward a reduction of a student's tuition burden. Under the old system, students could keep just 40 cents of every dollar won. The new system will relieve some of the burden currently placed on students to fund their own education through work or loans...