Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Obviously, we just can't afford to lose," Rueb said. "Yale is Yale...
...person without a college education will not go very far. Giving student loans is not necessary for the wealthiest of citizens, but it can be the deciding factor for middle class and lower income students, who may be just as smart as any Harvard student but simply cannot afford $28,000 a year. Given this, student loans, by enabling many more students to attend college to gain the skills needed in today's job market, increase the nation's economic competitiveness. Thomas Jefferson said a democracy cannot remain a democracy if its voting citizens aren't educated. Thus, 200 years...
...high price of a private college education can also be traced in large part to federal funding. When considering how much aid to give to a particular student, the financial aid officers of a college must first calculate what the student's family can afford in light of its income and assets. This is called the "expected family contribution." Federal aid programs will only pay to make up the difference between this amount and the tuition, room and board charged by a particular institution...
...more annoying for honest taxpayers-4,500 IRS auditors have undergone 32 hours of training in new "economic reality" techniques for intruding deeply into the life-styles of those audited to find evidence of unreported income: for example, questioning where they go on vacation and how they can afford that Lexus in the driveway...
...left and right--prefigured the fall of death-penalty opposition from the liberal canon. Capital punishment used to be a defining issue in politics, the way abortion continues to be; rather than separating liberals from conservatives, it defines whether one is "tough on crime," something no current politician can afford...