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Show Tuition Information ColU'tfo costs have nhmit doubled during the past do-cade, do-cade, and experts predict those costs are only izoinn to K up- Collego costs are not as high as thoy miqht be-and you may bo able to lower yours. Fortunately, there arc sonic things that are helping parents (who pay on average, aver-age, some 00 percent of the cost of their children's eol lege education), ami students. stu-dents. One is the many contributions to colleges by Amcricn'i major corporations. Although many people, a recent Harris poll revealed, feel that a 20 percent corporate corpo-rate profit margin is fair and believe that big companies earn 37 percent, I he truth is major companies like I)u Pont only make a profit of about 10 percent. Much of that must lie used to pay shareholders and invest in new ocuipmcnl and the like, but a good deal of it is given to our educational institutions. Also helpful arc the variety of student loans and inili-vidunl inili-vidunl grants available. You can learn more about them from a free book, "Information "Infor-mation for Students," of rered by the U.N. Office of Munition, Washint'lon I) '. 20202. |