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"sent": "Whereas private businesses cut prices for consumers and costs to consumers and costs through efficiencies that increase profits and incomes, universities lack those incentives."
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"sent": "Universities do a second thing unheard of in the private sector -- Universities often deliberately turn customers away."
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"sent": "A fast food chain or discount store succeeds by selling more hamburgers or television sets; no customer was ever kept from spending money at McDonald's by an \"admissions office."
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"sent": "Yet for American universities, the \"bottom line\" is measured by college rankings that often reward schools for turning people away, becoming more \"selective."
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"sent": "Many believe the Ivy League offers the best education in the world, so why do we encourage those elite institutions to deny access to thousands of highly qualified students every year?"
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"sent": "And the nonprofit nature of institutions reduces incentives for colleges and universities to be efficient."
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"sent": "But there's only so much the federal government can (and should) do."
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"sent": "The key to getting costs under control is contained in three words that begin with the letter \"I\"-- information, incentives and innovation."
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"sent": "As mentioned above, incentives to conserve resources are few."
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"sent": "Once, as a department chairman, I successfully battled for more faculty members to do the same amount of work, thus lowering productivity."
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"sent": "Where else do the employees get to decide who the employees bosses will be or how much the employees will be paid?"
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"sent": "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Richard Vedder."
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"sent": "Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed some of these concerns in a speech where U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged colleges to get serious about colleges cost problem."
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"sent": "Indeed, the typical successful university president views the typical successful university president or the typical successful university president key constituencies not to be the customer (students and his or her key constituencies parents who pay tuition charges or the granters of research funds), but rather others -- the faculty, important alumni, key administrators, trustees and occasionally politicians."
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"sent": "Already, we know several online and other innovations can work to deliver high-quality education services at potentially lower prices."
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"sent": "Duncan highlighted Western Governor's University, a nonprofit online institution, as one such example."
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"sent": "Rather, perhaps we should be encouraging some students to develop skills at lower costs by utilizing innovative free courses provided by groups such as the Saylor Foundation and Khan Academy."
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"sent": "Nondegree forms of education need more emphasis, since the number of college graduates exceeds the number of jobs available in occupations for which degrees historically have been desirable -- jobs in the managerial, technical and professional areas."
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"sent": "According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2008 some 29.7% of flight attendants, 24.4% of retail salespersons and 17.4% of baggage porters had a bachelor's degree or higher."
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"sent": "In a statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had accepted Rep. Charlie Rangel's request and praised the longtime congressman for \"the longtime congressman decades of leadership on jobs, health care and the most significant economic issues of the day."
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"sent": "Nancy Pelosi's promise to run the 'most ethical Congress in history' has been reduced to a punch line, and as a result Nancy Pelosi's is presiding over a caucus in chaos,\" said GOP spokesman Ken Spain."
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"sent": "But in Berlin, the start-up world is still shaping up."
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"sent": "Fast-forward to today,"
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"sent": "and we're still sharing all the phrases above."
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"sent": "Lincoln felt the United States was setting an example for the world, and Cornelius didn't want the experiment in democracy to fail."
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"sent": "Little doubt exists that Lincoln opposed slavery, and in fact loathed Lincoln opposed slavery, Cornelius said."
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"sent": "But Lincoln can't take full credit for This phrase, Cornelius said, because it was a fairly common expression used in the parlance of war."
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"sent": "Cornelius said the key to the power of this phrase is in this phrase skillful use of repetition."
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"sent": "This line is a bit of an inside remark shared with the audience, believed by most historians to be a reference to Psalm 90:10, which most people of the day would know is an allusion to the human lifespan."
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"sent": "The days of our years are threescore years and 10,\" says the psalm."
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"sent": "Cornelius said Lincoln used such phrasing as a subtle reminder that the United States was only a youthful 87 years old."
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"sent": "And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is they strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.\""
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"ord": 41,
"sent": "All men are created equal' More clever wordplay is at work in this famous quotation."
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"ord": 44,
"sent": "This phrase can be interpreted as both an allusion to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and also as a not-so-subtle jab at the institution of slavery."
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"ord": 48,
"sent": "These dead shall not have died in vain' Something about this part of the speech may be touching a nerve somewhere."
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"ord": 51,
"sent": "It speaks to a need for soldiers' deaths to mean something, if soldiers' deaths must occur -- a timeless desire we echo today."
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"ord": 60,
"sent": "'This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom'"
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"ord": 61,
"sent": "This phrase was mentioned by many readers who commented on this story."
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"ord": 62,
"sent": "For some, This phrase has become a point of political contention due to the presence of the words \"under God."
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"ord": 66,
"sent": "The takeaway there is persistence in the face of adversity. '"
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"sent": "Although an investigation is still under way, a short circuit in the wiring is believed to have caused fire, according to the home minister, adding that the dzong was 95% built of timber."
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"sent": "the Center for Bhutan Studies hilltop location overlooking the Punatsangchu and Dangchu rivers offered a military advantage -- and the same inaccessibility that was intended to ward off enemy attacks on Sunday hampered efforts by firefighters to put the blaze out."
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"sent": "And especially not to the kind of attention that this has gotten nationwide."
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"sent": "The incident had received media attention across the globe."
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"sent": "That's what causes this."
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"sent": "CNN's Rande Iaboni contributed to this report."
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"sent": "Schaefer's case could also go to the judicial council, which is equivalent to the supreme court of the Methodist Church, according to my son's attorney, Bill Ewing."
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"sent": "Schaefer's attorney, Bill Ewing expects an appeal and hopes to become reinstated to the Methodist clergy to be heard in 2015."
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"sent": "So in 2010, anti-Israeli joined Israel's military."
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"sent": "It's believed there are approximately 750 Americans currently serving in the Israeli military, according to the New York-based Friends of IDF."
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"sent": "the New York-based Friends of IDF raises funds for the cultural, recreational and social needs of Israeli soldiers."
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"sent": "Although there are no firm numbers of those who have signed up in recent days, the interest level of Americans seems to have increased amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to Orit Mizner, southwest regional director for Friends of Israel Scouts, an organization that helps North American Jews stay connected to Israel."
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