Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mabel Chen needs a doctor, she goes to see someone at the Arizona Physicians Clinic in downtown Phoenix. Chen, the director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS, pronounced access), reads her magazines in the waiting room alongside people who pay no insurance premiums, who can barely afford their generic prescription medications, who perhaps cannot even read the warning labels on a bottle of aspirin. When Sherry Broyles, 23, a single mother of two, needs to see a doctor, she waits alongside the likes of Chen and feels no less worthy of her doctor's attention just because...
...Schools from around the world come, but there are kids in the Boston public schools who don't get the experience," Khan said. "This is a step in the right direction, but at this point it's all we can afford...
...that person can damn well afford to live in the city...
...residents' call for Harvard to "divest" from its Cambridge real estate interests. Tanner doesn't believe it is right for her to lose her home, though she has only lived at her current address for two years. Rohr thinks that the market itself is unfair because he can't afford to live where he desires. Hall is of the socialist mindset that property seizure is just so long as it benefits the least well...
...vigilance comes too late for embittered workers like Wynn. Says he: "The Federal Government set this up so that a thief could play with my money." For now, his dreams of retirement are on hold. He will have to work several more years before he can afford to retire...