• If students facing large debts decide that a so-so course at a so-so university isn't so attractive after all, there may be summer sales, with places going cheap in clearing, or perhaps early-bird discounts for students who make a particular institution their first choice.

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  • The law was written for two private corporations so that a tax -- so that a corporate raider -- and this happened in the '80s -- would buy one unprofitable corporation, use their tax loss write-off to benefit the profits they were making another corporation.

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  • When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.

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  • These macro factors matter more than the same old so-and-so is a great CEO and such-and-such company has performed well in the past.

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  • Why did so-and-so get such a great book cover and mine looks like an ad for the circus?

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  • On top of which, no-one tells you that so-and-so or such-and-such a person is going to be at the event.

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  • Those specially trained dogs which round them up, hunters who wage aerial assaults, shooting the goats from helicopters, and finally what the conservationists confess is an underhanded weapon--a so-called Judas goat, which has a tracking device placed on it.

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  • So this is a very much so - very much a squeaker.

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  • As I understand it, one reason why RBS has not given much detailed information about why its services have been so badly disrupted is that so much of the operational responsibility for IT is outsourced - so there is a sensitive issue of where to attribute blame.

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  • He still supports welfare reform--so long as no one gets hurt--and a balanced budget--so long as no popular programs get cut too much: a strategy that has left him with approval ratings roughly twice as high as either Gingrich's or Perot's.

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  • The location is remote - deliberately so - a compound ringed by hills, and shielded by high walls, topped with razor wire.

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  • So -- so -- so I'm proposing that we move forward on a range of ideas about how to put patient safety first and let doctors focus on practicing medicine.

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  • Simpson guy brought me a lot of pain heartache -- I tried so hard with him -- I wanted so to be a good wife.

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  • To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.

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  • There's no denying this: Tracking what you paid for each share of a stock or mutual fund--so you can calculate your taxable gain when you sell--is so tedious that a lot of folks just guess.

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  • Clever marketing helped Dietrich Mateschitz turn a so-so beverage into a billion-dollar brand.

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  • We see pregnant women in bikinis on the beach - and a public one at that - so we are a lot less sensitive here in Australia.

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  • As part of his employee contract with the Irish company, most of his salary is diverted into a nonqualified deferred-compensation plan, and held in a so-called Rabbi trust in a Caribbean tax haven, where it grows tax free.

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  • Jetpac uses algorithms to remove photographs that are unlikely to be relevant -- such as photos of the parents of a friend -- so that a manageable sliver of travel photos is presented.

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  • What do we gain, first, by releasing the memos, but, secondly, what do we gain from indicting lawyers for their opinions -- if that is a possibility here -- or holding a so-called 'truth commission.

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  • It was the two-lane U.S. Highway 70, technically a federal road that was so rough and so sway-backed, it resembled a horse destined for the glue factory.

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  • "Turanor" -- so-named after a word that means "power of the sun" in J.

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  • In a star-studded galaxy of witty, cheezy Web pages, bashing the famous and not-so-famous, a few stand out for their ingenuity and originality.

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  • Humans would not survive in the wild alone -- imagine trying to fend off a wild beast with a stick by yourself -- so they feel a negative signal when they are disconnected from others, Cacioppo said.

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  • But they do not breed more than once a year - so it is a long term exercise.

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  • The stock took a dip after a not-so-merry Christmas forecast and a report that third-quarter sales of Fisher Price toys were weaker than expected.

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  • When Clemson and LSU face-off in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl, they will do so in a sold-out, temperature-controlled Georgia Dome in a game that is televised un-opposed on ESPN.

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  • Like we suspected, that astronomical name is attached to the conspicuously grounded Jasper: as long as the listing is accurate, we're looking at a 1.2GHz dual-core processor (toned down from the 1.5GHz rumor), a 4-inch, 800 x 480 display, a so-so 3.2-megapixel back camera and a 1.3-megapixel shooter at the front.

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  • But you'll generally pay the same expenses whether you buy the fund through the family or through a supermarket -- so using a supermarket makes a lot of sense if the funds you want are on the list.

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  • Sales were so brisk McClung then opened a so-called pain clinic to demonstrate and sell the blue-tinted cream.

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