Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait. The term "unethical bidding war"--really the crux of the public-good argument--deserves a strong airing out. First assume its validity. How does the protection of undergraduate financial aid justify the possibility that schools collude in setting faculty labor costs together, a separate issue involving separate individuals? Can we contradict collusion charges when the most expensive schools jointly hike costs faster than inflation? Further, how can it be ethical to set a common price--the Ivy League schools with the exception of Cornell all cost between $19,000 and $19,500--when housing costs, facilities costs and research...
Harvard will no longer wait for next year; next year is already here...
...holds that God's biblical command to build the Temple is irrevocable, and the Jerusalem Talmud says Jews may construct an intermediate edifice before the Messianic era. A 1983 newspaper poll showed that a surprising 18.3% of Israelis thought it was time to rebuild; a mere 3% wanted to wait for the Messiah...
...story also sounded a special chord for associate editor Richard Lacayo, who wrote the story on the children who wait, too often in vain, for adoption. His brother Joseph, now 21, was one who did not. He arrived on a day Lacayo remembers as the happiest in his family's life. "All the while that I worked on this piece," says Lacayo, "I had my brother in mind as the image of why adoption is worth whatever trouble people go through." Despite uncovering some painful sides of adoption, our staffers came away heartened by how many children and potential parents...
...baby chase is on. Would-be parents must be relentless and infinitely flexible. Many turn to open adoption, some allow the birth mother a continuing role in their family. Meanwhile, burgeoning numbers of children who are older, not white, or handicapped wait and wait for a family and a home...