"The complication for universities is if you don't recruit the same percentage of students with AAB or better than you had last year what happens is you lose the funding for those students, " he said.

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Life, it's been said, is what happens when you're waiting for something else.

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However that relationship happens for you is what's important.

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Wachovia didn't say, but goodwill impairment is what happens when a company overpays for an acquisition, so you could guess that it's related to the Golden West deal.

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"I just think this is what happens when you have a large government bureaucracy that functions for decade after decade, " said Keith Cowing, editor of the website Nasa Watch.

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For example, what happens when everything you touch is recorded?

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You can't help but suspect that this is what happens when schools go in for the big sponsorship agreements.

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So what I'm curious about is, let's just say for the sake of argument something miraculous happens Thursday and you get something that's akin to a deal.

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