Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fill this gap that Biochemist Anthony Cerami created the orphan-diseases lab. Unlike the drug companies, the scientists could not afford to screen thousands of compounds in hopes of finding one that might work. Instead, they concentrated on combining what was already known about a disease with their own ingenuity...
...housing would be aimed at families with incomes of $10,000 a year and thus able to afford rents of $50 per room per month. Those with lower incomes would get a rent subsidy from the Federal Government, while those with higher incomes would pay a surcharge. There would be condominiums as well as rental units. To avoid costly central management, each homeowner would be responsible for his own painting, snow removal and general maintenance...
...give money just to those students whose eligibility to win presupposes a substantial level of personal wealth. Promises from the sponsors that the cost of a collection would not be a determinant in its selection does not adequately refute charges that the competition discriminates against those who cannot afford to build up a library...
Yale administrators claim that because of a $6 million deficit last year, the university cannot afford to pay more to its workers in benefits and wages. But that deficit, which came--surprisingly--after Yale's endowment rose nearly 10 per cent in fiscal 1976, was caused largely by temporary circumstances, such as a rise in fuel costs during last year's unusually cold winter. And although the university has fostered a sense of financial "crisis" by instituting a hiring freeze, much of that crisis was actually created by a corporate decision last month to limit the amount of endowment income...
Just where the team is heading remains unclear. If they continue to win they will attract attention and consider a move up in class to Formula Vee, or, if they can afford it, they might attempt to race in European Formula Three. "Five years ago every up-and-coming road racer wanted to go to Europe, but now the important thing is to do as well as you can, wherever you are," Medenica says...