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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since April 1995, no Cambridge cab that is more than nine years old can legally be in service. Cabdrivers protested that enforcement of the "nine years vintage rule," which was waived for 122 drivers last year, would require them to purchase vehicles they can't afford, putting them out of business come April...
Unfortunately, Hirsch was not Midas, and he couldn't afford to pay his postdocs more than the standard $18,000 yearly stipend. To support his family, Ho started moonlighting in Mass General's walk-in clinics. It turned out to be the right time to be in that place too. "The clinics are where you see the flus, the colds, the common illnesses," Ho says. In the mid-1980s, however, he started seeing gay men with what appeared to be an unusually severe flu. They always got over their illness without any of the hallmarks of AIDS. Still, he wondered...
...manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries. "We are dying because we don't have medicines," she says. "I heard that there are new treatments. But I cannot afford them...
Peter M. Witt, general manager of shuttle and fleet management services, said that the total money spent on the Evening Shuttle Van Service for this fiscal year is about $220,000 for a ridership of 26,000. Surely the University could afford to pay the drivers of its two vans for a few extra hours per night in order to protect the well-being of its students. Anything less than that would be an abdication of its responsibility to keep its students safe. We urge all riders to write in with their own input to the transportation services...
...interested in what things we cannot afford to provide, in looking at ways they allocate health care," Jagsi said, noting she plans to engage in public service...