21.   Equally rare are programs in which a foreign government pays for the expertise of an American university and its faculty.

22.   Fewer grants will slow scientific breakthroughs in disease prevention and cure, which from the Salk vaccine to recent advances in breast cancer have mostly happened at American universities.

23.   Finally he has what he wants in Helene, a French comtesse studying at an American university.

24.   Following his retirement, Moody continued to lecture at various American universities.

25.   For a dozen years now, American universities have overproduced graduates with doctorates in the humanities.

26.   For the first time, graduate students at private American universities have been granted the right to belong to trade unions.

27.   For American universities the bull market was a godsend.

28.   From Harvard to Stanford, top American universities are often accused of discriminating against their female professors, and usually respond with defensive denials.

29.   From Athens to Panama, American universities have been setting up branches overseas, supported by the strong dollar and economy.

30.   He also hunts down e-mail addresses of American universities so he can apply to graduate school.