Word: affordably
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Shortcuts, for example, make us more prone to do whatever everyone else is doing - or whatever Jim Cramer tells us to do. "The brain cannot afford to re-evaluate on a millisecond by millisecond basis. So it will use other people's opinion as a proxy for its own," says Emory University neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, author of the new book Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently...
Merema M. Ahmed was a high school senior in Fargo, N.D., when she first heard about QuestBridge, a college matching program for low-income students.A 4.0 student, she was still unsure how she would afford college. She said her family’s financial situation was “definitely not well-off or stable.”The program’s early application deadline meant a scramble to research as many schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools...
...Hence, it is highly unlikely that Venezuela will ever be able to afford the loans and war material it receives from Russia, for even in the medium term, the junior member of this alliance is financially unsound and, increasingly, politically powerless. Despite the threatening sound of this partnership for U.S. interests, it is clear that these unlikely allies came together out of fear: Whereas the Kremlin fears diplomatic isolation, Chavez fears his end may be fast approaching. What we should all fear is what a populist like Chavez will do with Russian weaponry at a time when he is desperate...
...country is going in the wrong direction. We have bridges falling into our rivers and children dropping out of our schools and an abiding sense that the American Century that let us shine as a beacon to the world is giving way to one in which we can't afford the electric bills. And yet the historians sitting around the table are more comfortable with ambiguity than is a voter heading into the booth. Even in crisis, they say, there is no perfect presidential temperament. "You want the right blend of confidence and humility," argues Yale historian Beverly Gage...
...Obama has proposed a similar plan. "We're going to put two million more Americans to work, rebuilding our crumbling roads and schools and bridges," he said last Thursday in Ohio. For those wondering how Washington can afford it, he has an answer that pleases his base, if not his budget-balancers: "If we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend $10 billion right here in the United States, rebuilding America...