Word: affordability
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...Painful Decisions But regardless of the best efforts of physicians to reassure them, avoiding the pain of childbirth remains the wish of many women, if they can help and afford it. And sometimes circumstances - at least in developing countries - do not make it easy for doctors to have the patience that natural delivery often demands...
...work on Wall Street or in real estate, you're already feeling the credit squeeze. The same is true if you have a reset mortgage you can no longer afford or if you just want to sell your house, especially if you live where prices are truly crashing, like San Diego or Miami...
...billion, up almost eightfold since 2004. However, that's not exactly the fortissimo it may appear to be. The 38% annual growth in digital sales last year was less than half the increase seen in 2006. Music companies, says JupiterResearch's Mulligan, "are at a stage where they cannot afford to be as choosy as before" when it comes to distributing their wares...
...MCAS—follow-up programs, information about schools and parenting, and health services form up a vital base to promoting a secure environment for these mothers. As their children enter school, whatever reductions may have been made in sexual education programs must be reversed promptly; Massachusetts simply cannot afford this misguided attempt at cost-cutting. Beyond lecturing students about the consequences of unsafe sex, the state should see to it that young people are well acquainted with contraception in all its forms—from abstinence to morning-after pills—and that the option for an affordable...
...where the countries around that area will come together to try to provide stability. They will never do it in a situation where they perceive a non-Islamic occupation of Iraq. They can't do it. The regimes around there - Kuwait, Jordan, Iran, and Syria and others - can't afford to help in a situation where they're perceived as helping an illegitimate occupation...