Word: programing
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...launching a new program of price matching two weeks ago, the MIT Coop has given students a new incentive to buy their books on campus...
While the Harvard Coop has no plans to offer a similar program, employees say recent improvements to selling techniques will ensure the store remains competitive...
Because of overhead costs, physical bookstores have a hard time competing with online prices. But the MIT Coop is finding that this new program is probably worth...
...instance, five books for the core class Foreign Cultures 78: Culture-Building and the Emergence of Modern Scandinavia, were not available at any of the ten online vendors that the Undergraduate Council site searches. The program offered the following advice: "The following books are not available within 4 weeks at any of the booksellers you searched, so you may want to just get them at the Coop...
...Bradley's proposal calls for doubling the budget of Title I, the program that provides direct federal aid to poor school districts, to $16 billion per year, which should play well with liberals. But it also contains initiatives popular among centrists, including making funding contingent on school performance (a page taken from George W.'s platform), raising teacher training requirements and allowing Title I students to leave underperforming schools. This last measure, a form of school choice, could even score points with conservatives. But the plan has the same weak spot as previous Bradley proposals: While larger in scale...