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...While they may restrain him from concluding a pact of such epic importance, Singh can ill afford to lose the support of the communists, because their departure from his coalition would have forced snap elections 18 months early. If he had been counting on convincing the Left to drop its opposition to the deal at the eleventh hour, he has badly miscalculated. Communist demands that the government refrain from negotiating nuclear safeguards with the IAEA - the next phase of implementing the deal - have prevailed, and it is the government that appears to have been forced to back down...
With hopes of winning an Ivy League title and competing for the national championship, the Crimson, which lost to Brown and tied Holy Cross in its last two games, could not afford another loss. Harvard needed a strong second half, and that is exactly what...
Pennsylvanians had been clamoring for a new road between Philadelphia and Lancaster for years, but the government just couldn't afford it. So in 1792 the state chartered a company that would build the nation's first private turnpike--62 miles (100 km) of stone and gravel--in exchange for the right to collect tolls. Today Pennsylvania finds itself in a similar bind, with the money it needs for roads and bridges far outstripping the money it gets from the gas tax and other revenue streams. So Governor Ed Rendell is turning back the clock, proposing a slew of deals...
...emotional nourishment they provide. It's not for nothing that family scrapbooks are usually stuffed with pictures and report cards of the firstborn and successively fewer of the later-borns-and the later-borns notice it. Educational opportunities can be unevenly shared too, particularly in families that can afford the tuition bills of only one child. Catherine Salmon, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Redlands in Redlands, Calif., laments that even today she finds it hard to collect enough subjects for birth-order studies from the student body alone, since the campus population is typically overweighted with...
Buck Farmer ’08 said he too has noticed a drop in positions offered, but added that he believes the reason for this trend is that companies cannot currently afford to hire as many graduates as they could last year...