Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the Civil War to help them support themselves and make their new liberty real. For most of them, of course, the promise never materialized, even though the Freedmen's Bureau had the authority to rent abandoned or confiscated Southern farmland to freed slaves until they could afford to buy it. If that brave promise had been kept, Mr. President, you wouldn't be embroiled in the latest debate about a government apology for slavery. If the freedmen had become landowners instead of penurious laborers, their descendants would be prosperous enough today to be, well, conservative Republicans...
Zhang is no foreign import but a 30-year veteran of the state factory system, a lifelong auto man who runs one of the few profitable heavy industries in Shenyang. When the plant, burdened with 7,000 workers making shoddy cars no one could afford, foundered in the early '90s, the Hong Kong conglomerate Huachen wheedled a 51% share as a joint venture. It went out looking for a mainland general manager and found Zhang...
...graduates to deduct one-half of the interest paid on undergraduate student loans from their Massachusetts income tax. As the chief sponsor and author of the student loan tax cut, I am pleased that the Senate has taken a leadership role on an issue that will help working families afford a college education...
...Looming Crisis?" Not much. The industry remains burdened with $50 billion of debt, still requires huge capital outlays, is threatened by satellite and wireless competition and has little earnings. As for Gates' investment, it's a pittance. Microsoft has $9 billion in cash on its books. Gates can afford to cover all bets...
...filled with books, watercolors, excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements as he was difficult to like for his aggressive and vainglorious personality...