Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Homer told a group of students assembled for the open house that the funding jump means that Harvard can afford to pay a full work-study hourly wage to any student who wants to participate in one of the America Reads programs on campus...
Student public service leaders say the work-study funding may help to attract students who otherwise could not afford to volunteer...
...many times have I told you, Larissa Tsibliyev?" said Vasily, shaking his head. "We cannot afford turnips...
...idea behind the giveaway was that the new channels would be used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
...federal government is financing university research into a new Internet technology called the gigapop, that will connect at a screaming speed ? 1 million times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop could kill most small ISPs within five years...