Word: affordability
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...traditional Republican values; there's the Wal-Mart Republican (Huckabee), the establishment Republican (Romney), and the independent Republican (McCain). After Michigan, all three appear to have an equally good shot at the nomination. But for voters to have faith in the man who won Michigan, Romney can't afford to change his tune...
...squinty insiders who game out primary voters like, well, bookies. Boasting of delegate count does not generally create a feeling of success in average voters, but, according to Anuzis, "that delegate stuff appeals to activists," who will vote more "pragmatically" on "the winnability aspect." Whether Romney can afford to pay less attention to a traditionally crucial G.O.P. state like South Carolina remains to be seen. Mark Salter, a McCain senior adviser, doesn't think so: "If you're gonna claim the mantle of the latest front-runner, you've gotta compete...
Relations between Amtrak and its employees have strained over the issue of whether Amtrak will make long-awaited pay raises retroactive—payments that Amtrak, which is funded in large part by federal subsidies, likely cannot afford to dole out. If negotiations do not diffuse the tensions in the next two weeks, Congress seems poised to intervene. But in the event that there is a strike, it will involve severe repercussions for transit systems throughout the Northeast, and any resolution will almost certainly require a government bailout. Such a scenario would highlight two striking problems with the current state...
...Harvard’s academics. That the Faculty traditionally blows off the January meeting is hardly a justification for canceling tomorrow’s important meeting. Students are required to be on campus during reading period, and to ask for less responsibility from Faculty—which cannot even afford to spare an hour—seems hypocritical. While professors may have come to expect that January meetings will be skipped, we believe that this pattern of irresponsibility should be stopped. If the faculty wants to take its role in determining University policy seriously, then it should go ahead with...
Most clinics in sub-saharan Africa, where 22.5 million people are HIV positive, cannot afford the equipment and personnel to perform the high-tech procedure, known as nucleic acid testing, Lopez said...