Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wray: Looking back now, one of the best things that happened to us was that we didn't raise lots of money. Because dotcom companies were throwing money around right, left and center and because we couldn't afford to do that we thought very hard about what we applied our money to. For example, that picture with the two of us and a bookie pretending to be in a coffin, which was very tongue-in-cheek, was the front page of the Sunday Times business section three days before we launched...
...much over food shortages that government elections were postponed. Closer to the U.S., Haiti’s Prime Minister was forced to resign following hunger riots that killed 4 and injured 20, and the poor there are now eating mud patties mixed with oil and sugar because they cannot afford anything more...
...that respect for intellectual property is so expensive to students, universities should find a way to cover these costs institutionally rather than individually. Online programs such as JSTOR offer subscriptions to scholarly journals that all students can access. However, these programs are extremely expensive and not all Universities can afford such resources. However, there are less expensive digital access options, some of which charge the University based on the number of times accessed. A second way of lowering the cost of access to scholarly work might be through the type of free-access program that Harvard’s Faculty...
...Mast says that as the number of yachts and people who can afford them increases, so will investment in high-tech maritime security. "We feel that this is a boom market," says Mast, "and that they will sooner or later become targets...
...loyalists of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who reveres Fidel for his socialist purity and anti-U.S. ferocity. The relationship between Raul and Chavez is cordial at best; and Chavistas make no secret of their displeasure with Raul's quasi-capitalist bent. But Raul can't afford to alienate Chavez, who controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves - and who each day sends 100,000 barrels of cut-rate crude to Cuba that has helped keep the island's economy afloat this decade...