Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...given to people without even a credit check or income verification. The mortgages often carried very low interest rates in their first three years which reset to much higher numbers after that period. Homeowners found their monthly mortgage payments spiking up and, in many cases, they could no longer afford to make these payments as employment fell across the economy...
...Talcott and Nick Culbertson. “My philosophy is that I strongly believe that the walk-ons and the ones that stick with us should have an opportunity to fence,” Brand said. “This is one of those days I thought we could afford to do that, and they presented themselves extremely well.” Against the Blue Devils, and even against Haverford, things didn’t go quite so smoothly—it came down to the final two épée bouts against the Fords...
...aimed for: shoring up collapsing infrastructure, extending unemployment benefits, targeted tax cuts and relief - with strings attached - to state and local governments and embattled homeowners. Then take a deep breath, and let's have the debate he promised, the rigorous test of "Do we need this?" and "Can we afford it?", for all the other programs currently marinating in the bill, whether the honeybee subsidy or the Pell grants or the medical research or any of the proposed investments meant to spur long-term recovery and growth...
...Harvard’s the richest place around here,” Melin said. “If they can’t even afford the coffee, it makes us wonder, you know...
Companies that can't afford to fly safely shouldn't fly at all, some experts say. "I don't want to have the dead bodies keep stacking up and us say, 'Well, regulation costs money so we shouldn't have it,'" says Albert. "In aviation it's safety first and economics second...