Word: affordably
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...Traditionally, state universities provided an affordable education for its residents by offering subsidized in-state tuition. For Lansing native Anneke Stadt, a sophomore nursing student, the $11,037 tuition is the main reason she's at the University of Michigan. Stadt says she looked into private schools like Hope College ($33,000 tuition) and Kalamazoo College ($38,000 tuition). "I couldn't really afford them, though," she explains, "so I hedged my bets with the public school...
...month before, and up from 0.74% a year ago. As the economy stagnates and unemployment rises, Freddie and Fannie loans are at risk in a way they weren't when the primary issues were things like interest-rate resets and loans having been made to people who couldn't afford them in the first place. The research firm CreditSights has said it thinks the delinquency rate at Freddie could go as high as 4% in coming years...
...about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today and pay off later. "This [industry] is going to be the biggest investment for the first half of this century," says Immelt. "We have to create jobs, and this is going to do it. We can't afford...
...hiring students on work-study, whose wages are subsidized by the federal government. In Kirkland, for example, though applications poured in earlier this year—according to Kirkland House library tutor Allison K. Rone ’06, about 60 students applied—the House could not afford to accommodate as many undergraduates who did not qualify for federal work-study as in past years. All the Kirkland undergraduates who were newly hired this year to work in the library participate in federal work-study. The number of library employees has also fallen from...
...Cuba. NCAA offcials would have to grant an exception for foreign participation in college bowl games, but I'm betting they'd agree. American Airlines might decide to move out of Dallas, but I'd be O.K. with leaving NASA behind and letting Texans decide if they could afford to return to the moon. Border-patrol costs would be steep, but I'm sure Texas' application to join NAFTA would be favorably received. And it would get a vote at the U.N. and the right for its diplomats to park wherever they wanted on the streets of Manhattan. Texas would...