Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hyde's stubbornness and common sense spring partly from his hometown. His suburban Chicago district is just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George...
...between money and medicine that is occurring in hospitals all over the country--nowhere more than in the elite academic medical centers that have always led the way in training the next generation of doctors, inventing the next generation of cures, and providing them to those who could least afford...
Chaplain Mark Weiler is holding a seashell filled with purified water. Normally it's the parents who ask for him, when they want their baby baptized and don't think they can afford to wait. But this baby was abandoned weeks ago, and is due to go into surgery in an hour; it was the nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby...
...Math Problem: Bill Clinton offered Paula Jones $700,000 to settle her sexual-harassment suit. Paula recently got a nose job. If she accepts the settlement, what combination of plastic surgery and automobile can Paula afford...
...pick up only nondigital broadcasts--unless you buy the optional $1,700 digital decoder. Prices will eventually drop, of course, but Bill Mannion, general manager of Panasonic's TV division, acknowledges, "It's going to be a while, maybe years," before most consumers can afford HDTV...