Colleges with limited endowment capital unmercifully raise tuition 4 to 5 percent, per annum.

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Buck was beaten regularly and unmercifully as a boy, broken in ways no one would wish on any animal.

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Capital spending got slashed unmercifully.

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All I have is my past, but as I have been in counseling (up until two years ago, when it became physically impossible to do so.) to overcome my past-I endured three life threatening health diagnoses-polio, Hepatitis C, and breast cancer-as well as three abusive men-my first husband beat me unmercifully.

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