Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year-old man who had just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta's Tanah Abang district. "But we can't afford to buy anything anymore." The precedents were not good--the last time Indonesia went amok was in 1965: half a million people were killed after an abortive communist coup then-President Sukarno could not control. Suharto used the turmoil to maneuver himself into the leadership...
...your article on environmental activists protesting an international trade agreement [NATION, April 27]: I want to point out that the National Wildlife Federation and other like-minded groups aren't antiglobalists. We know that properly balanced trade rules can assist nations in achieving the economic growth necessary to afford environmental progress. But that balance is being forsaken by the Clinton Administration and the World Trade Organization. In ruling against the U.S. law to protect sea turtles in shrimp fishing, the wto ignores its own charter provision that allows actions that protect natural resources. The "enemy" of wildlife and the environment...
...three nights aboard Royal Caribbean's cozy 2,250-passenger Sovereign of the Seas. "Everything's right there, and you don't have to run yourself crazy looking for something to do," says Sherry, who sampled the lavish feedings and reveled in the duty-free shopping. "If I could afford to take a cruise every year, I would gladly...
...success. The house, the money, the two Jaguars in the garage. What good is all that paper without the girls giggling and running around? His dining room has been turned into a war room stocked with WANTED posters, surveillance reports and the makings of a question he can't afford to answer objectively...
...have to do our own little part," she said. "None of us can afford to be bystanders at this pivotal point...