Sentences with phrase «as near college»

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Thiel had then passively boarded a conveyor belt that would carry him from college to Stanford Law School, and thence to a position as a young transactional lawyer at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell, a position near the pinnacle of that profession.

Even as they near retirement age, a new report says parents are shouldering an increasingly large burden of their children's college expenses with warning signs that many are in debt over their heads.

For instance, if you've heavily invested in stocks for the majority of your plan's lifetime, you may want to shift to a more conservative portfolio as your student nears college - age.

Once he graduated, he enrolled in Calvary Chapel Bible College near Los Angeles for a couple of years, before leaving school to work as a youth pastor at a church in New Mexico.

There is increased public attention as we near the NCAA Tournament — so Betting Against the Public works particularly well at this time of the college basketball season.

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

SUNY has also served as an anchor for other economic development programs, including Start - Up New York, which offers a decade of tax - free status to businesses that start, expand or move to locations near colleges.

Among those measures passed by both houses was Governor Andrew Cuomo's Start - Up NY plan, formerly known as Tax Free NY, which would give large tax breaks to new businesses located near state college campuses.

However, the New Scotland Avenue site where the Axelrod Institute is located was identified as the best site, especially since it is near Albany Med and Albany Medical College, the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center and the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

She cited Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Start Up NY program as an example, which gives businesses a 10 - year tax break if they open up shop on or near a college campus.

Cuomo, a Democrat in his third year, is scheduled to stop at 4:30 p.m. at SUNY Upstate Medical University as he's readying a new plan to use tax incentives to lure businesses to locate near college campuses, Newsday first reported.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

Since, as Marcus notes, «some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the way of the music and journalism industries,» scientists at early stages of their careers may wish to consider whether they ought to tie their futures to institutions that, failing drastic reform in the near future, will in many cases continue «facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low - cost competition.»

As the Walking With Dinosaurs show tours the UK this month, we asked biologist John Hutchinson, an expert on dinosaur locomotion at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, near London, to comment on the realism of the show's life - size automatons (see video).

That may improve the ability to use accommodating IOLs as a surgical approach to correcting age - related declines in near vision, or presbyopia, suggests the new research by Kathryn Richdale, OD, PhD, of State University of New York College of Optometry and colleagues.

He taught himself high school material while working on a farm near Yan «an, studied in an engineering college in Xi'an as a worker - farmer - soldier trainee, and was among the first to pursue a graduate degree in post-Mao China.

I say «near - perfect,» because I don't remember a woman as professor during my college time there.

While en route to the football game of the year, a group of moderately annoying college kids - and Paris Hilton — break down near a weird town featuring a wax museum as it's only attraction.

If you are a 56 year old male eyeing college girls instead of women that are the same age as you (or at least near your age), it means that you are desperately trying to regain your youthful feeling of sexual power and confidence or no longer find people your age attractive.

He suffered through a crappy Hollywood adaptation of his prized tome, a single, tumultuous term as college professor, a felony conviction, and a near death experience at the hands of a psychopathic ex.

These words are uttered near the end of Richard Linklater's Boyhood, as her teenage son is about to leave for college.

The film starts off as a near - identical remake with Robin Williams playing the goofy professor who is so easily distracted by his experiments that for the third time he fails to show up to his own wedding and who is hoping to save his college from going under by inventing something spectacular.

David is just a loner about whom nobody would know or care if he disappeared off the face of the earth one day, as another buddy of his from college (Thomas Lennon) puts it near the start of the film.

Tracking young Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from childhood to college, the near - three - hour picture «feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment,» according to Rodrigo Perez's review, proving to be «warm, soulful, funny and quietly insightful,» and something of a crowning achievement for the filmmaker, feeling «disarmingly light on its feet, sweet, funny and playful in the early years not unlike the director's movies about kids, but as they mature, so does the movie.»

Similar trends for education and noneducation majors are evident for other measures of college selectivity, such as the percentage of incoming freshmen ranking near the top of their high - school class.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

As the visitor approaches the handsome new quarters of Florida Virtual School near Orlando's Valencia Community College, nothing tells him that he is about to enter the nerve center of one of the state's largest schools.

Hemsworth Arts and Community College near Pontefract uses pupil data as the foundation of its personalised learning programme for students.

As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.

As the Obama administration nears its end, second lady Jill Biden is still working hard to try to make free community college a reality across the U.S.,

By 2000, most states had earnings ratios near 100 percent for all aptitude groups, indicating that graduates of the most highly selective colleges earned no more as teachers than did graduates from bottom - tier schools!

Malcolm Trobe, the interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the creation of garden villages was a «good idea», but education issues should be «near the top of the priority list» as the developments were planned.

Miller considered lots of colleges as she neared graduation, but she always kept her eye on the prize — a prestigious four - year scholarship to a North Carolina university that would enable her to work as a teacher in her beloved home state.

As a fan of college athletics, I followed the autograph signing case of Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel pretty closely, but I don't have anywhere near all the facts and I shouldn't comment about the eligibility settlement of the case with the NCAA.

Raised and employed on a family fruit farm near Wichita, Kan., Dr. Johnson began his career as a laboratory and instructional assistant at the Kansas State Teachers College.

Speaking of ovals, an Albion College internship at Michigan International Speedway in 2001 marked my big break into this business, and I've attended races at Le Mans, Daytona, Indianapolis, and Eldora, as well as Bandimere Speedway, an awesome drag strip near Denver that I frequented in my previous job as a PR guy for Team Mopar and writer for Mopar Magazine.

Rick Bass was brought up in Houston, Texas and, for about a decade after leaving college, worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi (where he started writing short stories in his lunch breaks) before moving to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, near the Idaho - Montana - Canada border in 1987 with his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, who has illustrated some of his more than 20 books.

He teaches poetry and ecological writing at Wenatchee Valley College, serves as poetry editor of Terrain.org, and lives with his family in the foothills of the Cascades near Leavenworth, Washington.

But as college enrollment nears, fear begins to crop inside you.

The portfolio is designed to automatically rebalance as your child's college start date nears to reduce risk by adding a larger fixed income component.

Investment choices: A selection of mutual funds, including age - based portfolios, which are allocated among various asset classes and gradually get more conservative as the student nears college age.

Age - Based Strategy, which automatically becomes more conservative as your beneficiary nears college age

As a Beneficiary nears college age, the age bands invest less in mutual funds that invest in equity and real estate securities and more in mutual funds that invest in debt securities and in other investments that seek to preserve principal.

Choose a simple age - based option and your investment will automatically become more conservative as your child nears college age.

Our Age - Based Strategy includes portfolios that are managed according to the beneficiary's birth year with the asset allocation automatically becoming more conservative as the beneficiary nears college age.

We also limited our list to 529 savings plans that offer age - based portfolios constructed with index funds, since these all - in - one portfolios simplify the investment process and automatically decrease your investment risk as your child nears college age.

As the American Veterinary Dental College explains, bacteria accumulate inside the mouth and cause plaque to form near teeth and the gum line.

In July 1961, three college students, Carl Adler, James Wirth, and Joseph Bellina, crossed from the Bay of San Miguel to Puerto Obaldia on the Gulf of Parita (near Colombia) and ultimately to Mulatupu in what was then known as San Blas and now identified as Kuna Yala.

The inn stands in downtown Carlisle, Pennsylvania, near shopping, restaurants and historical sites such as Dickinson College.

As a first generation college student who came from a poor background, this cause is near and dear to my heart.