Word: affordability
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Starting tonight with saturation screenings, Iron Man kicks off the blockbuster movie season right on time - seven weeks before the summer solstice. But the Hollywood moguls can't afford to wait for June 21. Summer is the season designed to remind the still-vast film audience why they pay to see movies. And for the past few years, summer means now. In 2007, three of the four top-grossing films (Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End) all came out in May. (The fourth, Transformers, was released in the flop-proof July...
...article, Harvard has been more successful than other large universities in preserving a common theme in its built environment. At a time when “naming opportunities” are regularly given to wealthy donors and cities change the names of their sports arenas almost every year to afford publicity to the highest bidder, it is comforting to know that students and alumni can still have common reference points in comparing the recollections of the past with student life today...
...most basic function of ActBlue is enabling people to donate money to their favorite candidates online, and in small increments. Students and others who can only afford to make small donations can do so with the click of a mouse, allowing them to become active in the political sphere that they would otherwise have difficulty accessing...
...While Harvard and many of its peer institutions are able to generously refund the SEVIS fee to applicants, increasing the student fees is a problem that contributes to the national malaise of immigration policy. As it is, international students are largely bracketed to those who are wealthy enough to afford the cost of attending school in a different country. They are not eligible for federal aid and have to factor in expenses such as travel. As a result, socioeconomic diversity is sorely lacking amongst international students. Visas fees ought not add to the prohibitive barriers for students to study...
...Angeles institutions go, perhaps only the Lakers inspire as much passionate debate and chest-thumping as the humble taco truck: "My corner carne asada is better than yours, amigo!" Unlike the Lakers, however, you don't have to be Jack Nicholson to afford the top-of-the-line taco truck experience. Gobbling oniony beef tacos as you rest your paper plate on your car hood and watch the sun set over the freeway traffic will set you back about $3. It is an evening of fine dining accessible to any college student, construction worker or unemployed actor...