Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...noticed in 1976 that hobbyists were freely sharing Altair BASIC, a code he and his colleagues had written, he sent an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club telling them to stop. "One thing you do is prevent good software from being written," he railed. "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing...
...levels of scrutiny over our civil service, demanding more tax records from public officials to identity these problems before they can cause such a damaging situation. Just like other citizens, politicians should be held responsible for paying their taxes. Daschle may have been a promising candidate, but America cannot afford even the appearance of a double-standard. Finally, this wave of scandals is the most recent manifestation of an inefficiently complex and bloated tax system. According to the IRS, more than 60 percent of Americans use professional help to prepare their income-tax returns. A convoluted system of deductions, rules...
...White House Office of Health Reform, should have paid his taxes. It is the right thing to do, of course, and the fact that a man of his intelligence could not file a tax return properly—or that a man of his wealth could not afford a good accountant—is puzzling...
...badly needs Russia's help in Afghanistan, and Moscow can't afford to let the NATO mission there fail for the sake of Russia's own security. But Russia will extract a geopolitical price for its cooperation - and the resulting bargaining process could be lucrative for those caught in between. That's the message of Tuesday's bombshell dropped by Kyrgyzstan: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev ordered the U.S. to close down an air base in his tiny central Asian country that is used to provide key air support for NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan...
...while Russia can't afford for NATO to fail in Afghanistan, it would not be comfortable seeing the U.S. prevail, boosting its position in Moscow's traditional central Asian backyard - where the increasingly competitive geopolitics of energy supplies has ignited a new "great game" battle for influence between the rival powers. While it needs the Taliban to lose, Moscow doesn't necessarily want NATO to win, as such. Instead, it needs the outcome to strengthen Russia's own strategic position in its former Soviet sphere of influence. The Russians have made no secret of their desire to have a greater...