Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't think I could afford to go. The GI Bill gave me that chance," Rosa says...
...they need our help. The universe, after all, is a very noisy place. It takes a lot of raw computing power to find the wheat in all that extraterrestrial chaff, and with budget cuts and all, SETI can't afford the computers it needs to do the job. That's where your humble home (or office) PC comes in. Download its software over the Internet, and SETI central at Berkeley will send chunks of data for your machine to process. Amateur astro-geeks everywhere are pitching in. In the two weeks SETI@home has been available, more than...
...against me and my fellow professionals, who swing around millions of dollars in stock a day without blinking? At one time, I would have laughed if you had even contemplated such a thing. You couldn't match my access to conference calls, information or quick brokers. You couldn't afford the $1,500 a month you'd need for a Reuters, Dow Jones or Bloomberg wire...
...walkers and personal shoppers. Am I supposed to hire a couples therapist to follow me around so I don't cheat on my girlfriend, and a music critic to hide my Bruce Hornsby CDs? I don't want to live in that world. Mostly because I can't afford...
...India's turn. Politically, the last thing either India or Pakistan can afford to do is to show weakness in relation to the other. So New Delhi is now bound to up the ante after Pakistan Thursday downed an Indian MiG-27 and claimed to have also hit an Indian MiG-21 that had crashed in the Kashmir border region. The two nuclear-armed states are once again jostling at the brink of full-blown war in Kashmir after India Wednesday began bombing some 600 Pakistan-backed guerrillas who had crossed into its territory...