Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop is not a discount bookstore. Its obligation is to provide all the books the professors need for courses, and it can't afford within our system to offer competitive prices...
...other bookstores that can afford to slash prices aren't being cut out of the loop. Each department and professor can independently decide which bookstore to go through. Most choose the Coop because they have both a commitment and the facilities to provide the 1,000 Bibles, of which another bookstore could be wary. But there is no monopoly in spite of appearances. The Coop solicits book lists and the professors. Perhaps in small classes professors could deal with a different bookstore that could offer lower prices but there isn't a set arrangement with other stores. They could send...
Many students like Sherry Raffi, a Medford mother who was made two hours late by the motorcade of over thirty cars, could not afford the time to see the president...
...time of progress, and whose fourth Senate term will end in 1998. Glenn marveled at technology's advances from his father's time to his own, and urged the students present to take up the mantle of the coming age. "As we enter a new century, we can ill afford the freeloaders of democracy -- the selfish, self-absorbed political wolves who are content to carp, complain, criticize and destroy without offering any constructive help or ideas," he said...
Tomorrow's eighth Annual Summer Student Internship Fund Auction at the Kennedy School of Government will put these and other items on the block to raise money for students to work at agencies that otherwise could not afford their services...