Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Government surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006 found that nearly two-thirds of Japanese harbored negative feelings toward China, the highest percentages in more than two decades. Video game-loving software consultant Wu recalls how he was once walking to work - he held down five part-time jobs to afford his graduate-school tuition - and was stopped three times in 15 minutes by police demanding to see his alien registration card. During one stint when Wu toiled as a janitor, his Japanese boss took the Chinese workers aside and admonished them against stealing from the offices they were cleaning...
...loan servicers to freeze interest rates on some of the 2 million subprime mortgage loans that are due for sharply upward rate resets in the next two years. Paulson has said the five-year freeze would apply to borrowers "with steady incomes and relatively clean payment histories who could afford the lower introductory mortgage rate but cannot afford the higher adjusted rate...
HILLARY CLINTON, on Leeland Eisenberg, who took hostages at one of Clinton's New Hampshire campaign offices on Nov. 30. Frustrated that he could not afford mental-health treatment, Eisenberg went to the office after seeing a Clinton health-care campaign...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon member, who stakes his candidacy on improving campus life, pledged to “fund alcohol for lower income students who cannot afford social events in the Square and off campus...
Construction worker Macario Lopez has queued for four hours, along with his brothers, children, and nephews, to swap his cowboy boots for a pair of ice skates. He could never afford to take them to a commercial rink at $5 a head, he says. But the Christmas season has brought a colossal 34,400 square-foot open-air skating rink to the heart of Mexico City, in the central square known as the Zocalo. It's the largest rink in the world, its boosters claim, and more importantly, it's free...