Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuition at the University of Pennsylvania will climb by 6.7 percent, Brown and Dartmouth by 6.4 percent, Columbia by 5.7 percent and Stanford by 5.5 percent, officials at those schools said. These rates of increase all represent the lowest in the last 15 to 22 years, they said...
Partly in response to last year's tuition increases of around 8 percent, many college officials said they resolved to curb administrative costs in order to minimize student expenses this year...
...estimated range for Harvard's tuition increase would not vary much from that of the last two years. Tuition increased 6.5 percent for both the 1988-'89 and 1989-'90 academic years...
...many other universities, tuition increased at a lower rate than in any of the last 15 to 20 years, but the price hikes continued to be well above the inflation rate...
David Merkowitz, a spokesperson for the American Council on Education, said he sees "a recent moderation in price increases" among the nation's colleges, as tuition growth comes "back down closer to the historical pattern of a couple of percentage points higher than general price increases, which has been true for 50 years or more...