Word: limitates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another measure approved would tie scholarship limits to graduation rates, with teams who do not graduate 50 percent of their athletes losing an athletic scholarship from the current limit...
...Ironically, the most selective colleges, often those that can best afford to give money away, benefit from a kind of Chivas Regal effect, in which buyers are willing to pay for cachet. While Princeton and a few other top colleges continue to limit aid to those in need, their actions are fueling a bidding war among schools eager to win kids away from Princeton--or any other college above them in the perceived pecking order. As a result, observes James Monks of M.I.T.'s Consortium on Financing Higher Education, "financial aid is no longer viewed as a charitable means...
Current top-down methods of chip production use electron beam lithography, an expensive process that involves etching silicon into smaller and smaller pieces. Such methods will eventually hit a limit at which further miniaturization would entail extreme expense...
...Parker: Secular types are not thrilled about the proposal, but are more willing to apply the program across the board, rather than limit who gets the money. Older people, aged 65 and older, are much less enthusiastic about the program than younger folks, and they're also very concerned with separation of church and state. Some researchers theorize that this fear makes sense; older Americans come from an era when a majority religion was much more evident in every aspect of public life. People who lived through that era could, I'm sure, imagine state-sponsored religion becoming an issue...
...rear-guard strategy on matters budgetary. Bush opened Round Two of this year's budget battle Monday by delivering the fleshed-out version of his $1.96 trillion budget for 2002 exactly as promised: as an uncompromising crash diet for pork, federal subsidies and Clinton-holdover programs that would limit future spending increases to 4 percent...