Word: affordability
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...perps, according to game officials, are usually seasoned hunters from all walks of life who can afford customized Browning rifles, Leupold scopes and $800 Excalibur crossbows. They're wily and they're stealthy, like the deer stalker Nores apprehended a few years ago. He was trawling Saratoga, Calif., an enclave of million-dollar homes, in his wife's new Honda, a $2,000 rifle and low-noise ammo hidden under his kids' coloring books in the backseat. "Sometimes it's almost like an addiction with these guys," says Nores...
North Korea would be an economic basket case if only it could afford the basket...
...revisionism; if anything is impeding “working class musicians,” it’s the avarice of the men in the same boardroom where Steven gets his morning muffin. Still graver is the case of Ms. Thomas, a young, single mother who was unable to afford, on a stipend from her tribe, the costly legal counsel of technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA’s accusations. Of course the association’s lawyers have every right to prosecute on copyright law, but their insistence...
...that just because richer private-school kids can afford to be coached more before the SAT? No - remember that this study carefully controlled for socioeconomic status. Rather, it appears private schools do more to develop students' critical-thinking abilities - not just the rote memorization required to do well on achievement tests...
...patch of black ice, was making an appeal for President Bush to reconsider his veto of legislation that would have expanded the program designed to provide health coverage to children of the working poor - those who are too rich to qualify for Medicaid but unable to afford private insurance...