Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students with jobs, an after-school study hall is a luxury they can't afford. At Boston High School, many kids receive class credit for paid jobs. A more radical proposal comes from Richard Clark, dean of the graduate college of education at the University of Massachusetts Boston: "Don't go to work at Hardees, and instead go to work on your homework, and we'll pay you for that...
...down between them and Washington is that in the past few years, so many new lines have gone up; people have put out leads, cables, wires, dishes and high-speed traces connecting them to just about everything else. In a hyperconnected digital age, the last thing anyone can afford is an analog connection to a government that doesn't get it, can't keep up and is probably only going to make things worse if it finds you. Gordon Smith, the freshman Republican Senator from Oregon, is worried that a government engineered more than two centuries ago risks irrelevance...
BoardPlus, the program which gives students $50 each semester to use at select dining locations, was the second phase in card services. Its goal, Mayer says, is to afford students greater flexibility in what and where they...
...Paradoxically, when there's so much at stake it is easier for both sides to drag things out," he says. "Both teams and players could afford to play hardball...
...people who sell the hot dogs at the games, for example...those people could not afford the lockout while the players and owners easily could," he says...