Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they find much else. In Kinshasa's fetid slums, there is a new and sinister edge to the desperation. People who cannot afford soap wash their clothes with papaya leaves. Families that cannot pay for funerals bury their dead in rude holes. Single mothers who cannot find jobs feed their babies only once every other day. "Look at me," says Andre Miku, a retired mechanic whose children are hungry because he has sold the television set and the refrigerator and now there is nothing left to hawk. "I've grown so thin. It's not because I'm sick. There...
...that easy, and there aren't clear boundaries," said Sharon C. Broder, an employee of Houghton-Mifflin, a textbook publisher. "Television can afford to capitalize on what people are interested...
...Harvard Square Information Center--nestled inside the octagonally-shaped, faded wooden booth in front of the main entrance to the T--is not a resource that passing tourists or long-time Cambridge residents can afford to overlook...
...interest rate of about 17%. An uptick would add nearly a billion dollars in interest expenses. And those holding some $1.2 trillion in adjustable-rate mortgages and home-equity loans would have to cough up roughly $3 billion more. Now that's inflationary. Can we afford higher rates? Credit-card delinquencies are already at recessionary levels, and personal bankruptcies have reached a record pace--20,000 a week. Thus, even a minor rate hike could mean trouble and possibly bring the six-year economic expansion to a screeching halt. Don't say we didn't warn...
...quite legally, to federal grants. The audit found, further, that 21% of the employees who received assistance made more than $100,000. Twenty-six made more than $250,000. Yet the traditional rationale for tuition reimbursement is that faculty members are paid so poorly they can't afford to send their kids to college...