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...populations down from top-tier to medium- and lower-tier schools. But it also has its upside: Students don't require as many remedial courses to help them catch up with other students, and middle-tier colleges have upped their recruitment efforts in poor areas. They now woo a wider field of students from poor districts into the state systems...
...lender of last resort to guarantee the stability of the international monetary system. Designed to promote economic growth, it disburses some $30 billion annually in loans to developing and transitional countries. It also provides emergency loans to countries facing currency collapse, in order to minimize the danger to the wider world economy. Most recently, it played a leading role - at Washington's behest - in bailing out the troubled economies of Mexico in 1994 and Asia and Latin America during the financial crisis of 1997-98, as well in ensuring the liquidity of the Russian government...
...would say that I love the sanctity of the game as much as the next golfer. Although my handicap hovers around the age the Grille bouncer believes me to be, I am still enamoured with the magical spirit of golf and only seek to bring the sport to a wider audience...
Probably no other area of Cambridge contains a wider mix of people: Caucasians, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, French-Creoles, Haitians and Portuguese, to name just...
...been seen in New York City--that theater hothouse where small talents get big write-ups--this gifted playwright has yet to attract major attention. That may change when Butter is produced at Lincoln Center this summer--or when Boy Gets Girl, her best play yet, gets the wider audience it deserves...