Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director of Cities in Schools, a programto educate impoverished children in Georgia. Hesays he funds a scholarship for Atlanta studentswho get into Harvard but can't afford to go, andanother one for Black students...
...abandoned the "family hour" between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Such kid-oriented shows as Full House have been canceled, and adult comedies like NBC's Friends, CBS's Cybill and ABC's Roseanne will now air at 8 p.m. Network programmers point out that they can no longer afford to aim prime-time shows strictly at children, since advertisers spend most of their dollars targeting the 18-to-49 age group. Says ABC television network president David Westin: "There was a time when most households had only one TV set, so majority ruled. But with the increase in households...
...progress has been the partnership between universities and the government," Rudenstine said, referring specifically to research funding. "Now, at a time when our ability to solve increasingly difficult problems depends on educated leadership, we can't afford to give up on what's been our strength...
...become a real irritation, with a rapidly growing block of anti-Yeltsin members. So Yeltsin will either get the parliament to back down, or he'll have them totally out of the way for a few months while he pursues his own legislative agenda." One thing Yeltsin can't afford to do, says Kohan, is lay low. "There's a real perception here that Yeltsin has been letting the country drift. He really has to show the public that there's a firm hand on the tiller...
...power gardening makes sense in an age of downward mobility, when a middle class eager to stem a free fall will grasp at affordable luxuries. They can't afford 500 acres in Shropshire, or even a house as big as their parents', but there is some solace in growing their own endive. For those anxious about the fate of the family, the garden at least offers the illusion of control, of nurturing something that won't run wild the minute it reaches adolescence. Those nostalgic for a simple, agrarian past can siphon the sense of virtue attached to the idea...