Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Celebrities are doing the work that journalists are not. We can't afford to be cynical about that.' MARIANE PEARL, at left, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, praising actors like Angelina Jolie for raising awareness about Africa
...around the general ban on foreign universities' setting up shop in India. If successful, it would become the first American university to offer graduate degrees identical to those it awards to students in Atlanta. It hopes to open a campus in Hyderabad in 2009. "No school in America can afford to be U.S.-centric these days. We need our students to understand how things work in Asia," says Kellogg dean Dipak Jain...
...Celebrities are doing the work that journalists are not. We can't afford to be cynical about that...
...earlier than expected retirement after a FORTUNE 500 company bought their small real estate insurance business and imposed heavy demands that strained the couple's relationship. The choice has required them to live on a tighter budget, but they are closer than ever and happier. "Now I can't afford to play golf, but golf was like an escape for me," Howard says. "I don't need that escape...
...jobs we choose. However, the question of which occupations belong in which category is often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely to the far-less-traveled path of public service and take on constant financial worry along with a set of seemingly intractable problems to solve. Depending...