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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Funding - New Mexico, Rhode Island, North Carolina and California would fund capital improvements at education institutions through the creation or sale of bonds; and a South Dakota measure would allow public school money to be invested in the stock market. - Oklahoma would be able to dip into the principal of its education trust fund to supplement funds the income the fund generates. - A Colorado initiative seeks to increase per student spending on education by inflation plus one percent for the next ten years and at the rate of inflation thereafter. The state would also use at least $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Ballot Initiatives | 10/29/2000 | See Source »

...April dip was for fools. Were you one of them? If so, you had plenty of company. For most of a decade, investors have enriched themselves by plowing money into the market every time it stumbled. Whatever the downward catalyst, from Yeltsin's coup to the Asian flu, prices routinely rebounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NASDAQ: What A Drag! | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...that kids have overcome adversity," says Cornell's Gabard. "Goodness knows, they'll face adversity in college." Provided the adversity is authentic--like a death in the family--it can make a much more gripping essay topic than a summer jaunt through Europe. And if applicants have suffered any dip in academic performance, they need to account for it, either in an essay or in a counselor's letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...that kids have overcome adversity," says Cornell's Gabard. "Goodness knows, they'll face adversity in college." Provided the adversity is authentic - like a death in the family - it can make a much more gripping essay topic than a summer jaunt through Europe. And if applicants have suffered any dip in academic performance, they need to account for it, either in an essay or a counselor's letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In or Out: Inside College Admissions | 10/15/2000 | See Source »

...ever called me a prude, but the window thing is a little creepy. You feel like you're at a school for Peeping Toms, and you find yourself wishing there were a confession window, or maybe a flea dip, at the end of the chute. If they at least rotated your tires, you would feel a little better about yourself. But that's just one take. "I've been to Amsterdam, and this is a better show," Diskin raved as Daisy scored a 9.8 in the floor exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Pickles, Please | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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