1.   Because Rory needs a first semester tuition payment to begin school, Lorelai scrapes her pride and asks her parents for money.

2.   A broker or financial adviser can set up your portfolio so zeros come due at the same time as tuition payments.

3.   A number of schools and colleges now accept tuition payment by credit card.

4.   But a state trial court sided with Vermont, ruling that tuition payments to religious schools would violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

5.   But even though a governing council at the university voted to cancel any obligatory tuition payments, the strikers refused to lift the shutdown until all fees were eliminated.

6.   But for parents with children enrolled in private schools, tuition payments can be nearly as punishing as college costs.

7.   But the Vermont education department intervened and withheld state money to the school district, saying that its planned tuition payments for parochial schools would be unconstitutional.

8.   Even at the most prestigious colleges with huge tuition payments they have got major scholarship programs.

9.   Even Ivy League bastions could not resist the tuition payments subsidized by Washington or deny that the veterans were serious students.

10.   For parents of college students, it was a tax deduction for tuition payments.