Word: regardless
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According to Miller, Harvard has persuaded most of the donors' executors to include financial need as a requirement for the scholarships. However, some "haven't been convinced." Students with the surnames Ellis, Downer or Pennoyer, can still receive scholarship money regardless of need...
...anyone who lives in Cambridge and walks around Harvard Square knows, the plight of homeless people is a continuing problem. It has grown to such an extent that it merited a full set of questions to the presidential candidates in their televised debate Sunday night. Regardless of whose sound bites were better or whose memorized one-liner was catchier, Dukakis clearly showed that he was taking the homeless issue seriously. Such concern would be a welcome change after what Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) once called "a seven-year assault on federal housing policies by the Reagan Administration"--policies...
...Traditionally, medical care hasn't paid for [home care treatment], so those services haven't been available. The question is how could and should those services be integrated into what people can expect, regardless of where they live," says Dr. Harvey J. Makadon, the Policy Center's associate director and program director for the newly funded conference series...
Half the states have parental-notification laws but most, like Ohio, have not enforced their statutes because of legal challenges. Of the ten states with such laws in force, only Minnesota requires notification of both parents, regardless of divorce, separation or desertion. Judge John Gibson of the Eighth Circuit, writing for the majority, rejected the argument that Minnesota's requirement would often add to family problems: "Although some parents may be abusive, or at best unhelpful to their minor child faced with the decision whether to have an abortion, that is hardly a reason to discard the pages of experience...
...heptathlon, that epic ordeal in seven acts, that the only rival in the corner of her eye is the memory of her last triumph. Since 1984 she has set the heptathlon world record and bettered it twice; she has shared the world record in the long jump. Regardless of the success and the mental and physical cost of its purchase, the work goes on. No number of records will substitute for an Olympic gold...