Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, Harvard has come a long way since W.E.B. DuBois, unable to afford a spacious room in Harvard Yard, was forced to rent a home from an African American woman on Flagg Street, near where Mather House stands today...
...After school, they don't have the Girl Scouts, the voice and piano lessons to go to, because the parents just can't afford it," says Moacir C. Barbosa, director of the Area Four Youth Center. "So here's a good place to give them that exposure...
...retreat. On the Republican right, and not just there, they think Clinton mesmerized Gingrich in the December balanced-budget talks. Any deal Dole might bring back to the skeptical freshmen would probably be sneered at. And that would be a catastrophic exposure of weakness that Dole could ill afford...
Jackie had a brilliant marketing sense if she was involved with the idea of an estate sale, and I suspect she had a few thoughts on it before she died. It was brilliant to set the prices so low on everything. That way, everybody felt he or she could afford something. No one could accuse the Kennedy kids of greed, as it seemed rather generous of them to offer Dad's humidor for only a couple of thousand dollars. Then when it went for $574,500, it was like an enormous compliment to the Kennedy family: "We like...
...rocket attacks on northern Israel. Ideally, a comprehensive peace between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria (which occupies Lebanon) will result in Israel's withdrawal from the security zone and peace along the border. Until that time, however, Israel must act to protect itself against rockets fired from Lebanon. Israel cannot afford to be so naive as to think that its northern border will suddenly become safe if it unilaterally withdraws from the security zone. --Rob Ditzion...