Word: affordability
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...Tusk says his government's ambition is great: to complete the transformation to a free-market system begun almost two decades ago. The disastrous legacies of 45 years of communist rule - from a bloated bureaucracy to punishing unemployment - have yet to be cleared away, he says, and Poland cannot afford to waste more time. "We have no oil and gas," he says. "We don't have high tech. Our centers of development, are far, far behind others. We will never be an extraordinary tourist attraction. Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that...
...took a job teaching English at the U.S. embassy. She woke up well before dawn throughout her life. Now she went into her son's room every day at 4 a.m. to give him English lessons from a U.S. correspondence course. She couldn't afford the élite international school and worried he wasn't challenged enough. After two years at the Catholic school, Obama moved to a state-run elementary school closer to the new house. He was the only foreigner, says Ati Kisjanto, a classmate, but he spoke some Indonesian and made new friends...
...last weekend’s snows in Ithaca. On Wednesday, it will play its first of two games in the Beanpot Tournament, a tradition that annually features Boston College, UMass, and Northeastern. Having already dropped four games in the ever-competitive Ivy League, Harvard can’t afford to lose, or even split, many more two-game sets. “These games are crucial right now,” Walsh said. “I haven’t dropped a doubleheader, personally, in quite a long time, nevermind two. I just hope the team responds with...
...fact that Hank Moody can punch multiple people in the face and evade arrest and incarceration is ridiculous. While the premises of both of these shows are equally fantastic, they are no more so than the idea of a waitress, a chef, or a masseuse who can afford to live not only in Manhattan, but in a spacious and well-appointed loft. In fact, I (and apparently many viewers) find the absurdity of these new Showtime shows somehow more relatable. Certainly, there is a place for “Friends” on television, just as there is a place...
...know they will be not merely successful but happy. Whereas each class of high school seniors that touches down in Cambridge each fall undoubtedly consists of a sizable pack of strays who, in search of some pedigree in the snafu of college applications, have ended up where they can afford to be dedicated to success and little else. By contrast, transfers generally come because they know what they like, and see it at Harvard; they struggle against even slimmer odds to spend two or three years of tertiary education in the best way they...