Word: gracing
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...President began the feasting festivities with a blessing and gave thanks at the feast’s end. Guests would then hand around a communal “loving cup” or “grace cup” from which all the guests would drink...
After the meal and several rounds from the grace cup, the dinner guests would start into a round of songs...
...politicking, priming ourselves for the Forbes 500 with a premature sense of self-importance. Some of us play politicians. We hobnob at the Institute of Politics and recruit our friends to manage our bids for the Undergraduate Council, imagining some not so distant future when our names will grace campaign signs instead of problem sets. Still others of us play academics, activists, artisans, the avant-garde. We fashion the world that we inhabit in the image of an adult world we’d like to know...
...Treasury-bill rate set in the last auction each May, plus a factor. For student loans made between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998, that factor is 3.1 percentage points during the repayment period and 2.5 percentage points for borrowers still in school or in the six-month grace period after graduation. For loans made after July 1, 1998, the factor is lower: 2.3 percentage points in repayment and 1.7 percentage points in school or the grace period. (The factor on loans to parents is slightly higher...
...saving. Don't make a move before July 1--unless you apply through a consolidator like Collegiate Funding Services www.cfsloans.com) which is accepting applications that it won't process until then. And although these rates will be in force for a year, if you're in the six-month grace period in which you don't have to pay anything, you have to time things carefully. Consolidating early can bring your respite to an early end. But acting before it expires can save you more than a half of a percentage point in repayment. So bide your time. Then pounce...