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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last night, Ocon said she will spend the nextfew weeks doing research the legal precedents forher case, since she cannot afford an attorney...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Will Face 2nd Custody Battle | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Under this system, though, accidents of geography can create dramatic inequities. A patient who could afford to wait in, say, Dallas might get an organ that could have gone to someone on the brink of death in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Varying patterns of supply and demand can create tenfold differences in waiting times. According to computer models cited by the government, these inefficiencies cost as many as 300 lives each year. Says John Fung, transplant director at the University of Pittsburgh: "There's no justification to keep the current system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplant Tribulation | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Membership in Sigma Chi certainly does not come cheap: Dues are $425 per semester. However, the fraternity helpsstudents who cannot afford the dues to geton-campus jobs or to pay over a period of time.Members can also be sponsored by Sigma Chi alumni...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: EX? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...hasn't shown Hanson the book yet and doesn't know if she read the New Yorker short story it grew out of, because they don't speak that often. "I don't think she'd dislike the book," he says. "But it's not something I can afford to think about when I'm writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of His Time | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...payoff, with the plaintiff's team reportedly holding out for a cool million. "We have put an offer on the table that should be accepted and will be accepted eventually," Jones attorney David Pyke said Sunday. When you've got the President over a barrel, you can afford not to haggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Hits Back | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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