Word: affordable
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...Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked as an accountant and was raising a disabled child when she applied to the University of Texas law school at age 29. Her LSAT scores were good enough to qualify for the pool of minority and disadvantaged applicants...
...issues are not that simple, though. Although the Internet is a free-for-all, it is not free, and only those who can afford an Internet connection and have adequate computer skills can actually use the Internet. So, the Internet is hardly grass-roots. The press, on the other hand, is not obviously controlled by this country's elite because that elitism is somewhat lost in pandering to public interests...
...among his own people, who tend to hold him accountable for the excesses of his Israeli partners. "It's in the interest of the government to pressure Arafat but not to deliver a knockout punch," says Yaron Ezrahi, a senior fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Nor can Peres afford to incite the Palestinian public so much that it turns violently against the accords. Says "Ghazi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas: "The Israelis are laying the ground for a revolution, and we are going to lead...
AFTER SIX MONTHS of hapless shopping for a new Chevrolet Suburban sport-utility vehicle, Phillip and Julia Maloney of Marietta, Georgia, were almost ready to give up. No matter how hard they haggled, they could never find a model with the features they wanted at a price they could afford. Then last January, Phillip, a postman and after-hours computer enthusiast, discovered a referral service called Auto-By-Tel on the Internet. He typed in what he was looking for at 11 one night and got a call from a dealer the next morning. "They talked price on the phone...
...have to make a choice: Will they join together in making peace, or will they isolate themselves?" Coming from Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, which speaks for the majority of Catholics in Northern Ireland, it was a challenge the Irish Republican Army could ill afford to ignore...