Word: uncertainities
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Many college seniors have decided to ride out the uncertain economy by staying in school longer than they had planned. Scores of honors graduates at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pa., are taking the school's offer of a fifth year of tuition-free classes. Elsewhere, thousands of college students have to shell out big bucks to go to grad school. The number of students who took the Graduate Record Examinations, a requirement for many graduate programs, jumped 18% this year. But the glut of applicants has driven down acceptance rates, which at the University of Buffalo Law School, for example...
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They had plenty of time to reflect as the afternoon wore on. Talk drifted from their freshman year together in Canaday Hall, to their notorious drag performance in the Miss Pfoho competition, to their next, uncertain years, and even beyond, to children and suburban barbecues...
...That's hardly the sort of consumer confidence Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet is hoping to inspire. While the rest of Asia is showing strong signs of an economic rebound, Japan remains mired in its third recession since 1990. Getting the uncertain domestic consumer to start spending again is crucial to a lasting recovery. That's why even the most tentatively positive statistical signals are being viewed eagerly as light at the end of the tunnel?as happened last month when Koizumi aide Jun Saito declared that Japan had "hit bottom and from here on in we can expect...
With a monumental move to Allston looming on the horizon, Harvard-Cambridge relations will only grow more uncertain. As a first step toward reconciliation in the short-term, the University should modify its current building proposals to account for loudly voiced but often unheeded community concerns, and it should ensure that future proposals for new projects are not announced until it has solicited neighborhood input. At the same time, local residents should acknowledge the University’s positive contributions to their community and should look to take advantage of its immense resources in a mutually beneficial relationship. Progress...