Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a child. What do you expect?" said Rita Tobias, who employed professional nannies to look after her growing children as she continued her job with a finance company. "You have to set your priorities. If proper child care costs more, you have to find a way to afford it." Calls to radio talk shows were rougher. "Apparently the parents didn't want a kid," said a caller to WRKO talk-show host Howie Carr. "Now they don't have...
Roiling beneath the surface of the ocean of numbers is the issue of race. Why do minorities score worse? Manuel Gomez, a member of the Latino Eligibility Task Force, says suburban kids can often afford pricey coaching services that many minorities can't. Moreover, immigrants like Le--and many of California's Latinos--often struggle on the verbal part...
First step: The Real World: The Ultimate Insider's Guide. As if the TV show didn't afford enough pictures of these lovable teens and twentysomethings in various states of undress, James P. Solomon '87 and Alan Carter offer a book which compiles every conceivable piece of information on the 42 young people who sold their souls--or more precisely, six months of their lives--to MTV. From complete personal profiles to in-depth analyses of seminal Real World events (i.e., the firing of Montana from the After-School Program in the Boston season), Solomon and Carter dive headlong into...
...about crimes and drugs in their neighborhood. Just by growing up in a better learning environment, most whites and Asians will be more prepared to take the SAT than blacks and Hispanics. In addition, it is not surprising to see that it is mostly whites and Asians that can afford preparatory courses for the college admission tests or private tutors for their children. Those who cannot afford Kaplan or Princeton Review, however, are left only with books and their own self-motivation to prepare themselves for the exams...
Harris said she is opposed to the death penalty because she said she believes that it is unequally applied on the basis of the defendant's ability to afford defense and the defendant's race...