Word: affords
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...would be “class conscious.” High-price SAT tutors and admissions consultants already tilt the balance toward upper-middle-class applicants. A meritocratic system would restore that balance by giving a tip to applicants who can’t afford these advantages...
...baseball's economics thrive, more teams can afford high-profile players to fill the DH spot: the Toronto Blue Jays can sign Frank Thomas, who hit 39 home runs for Oakland last season, to a two-year, $18 million contract, and Oakland can give Mike Piazza one-year, $8.5 million deal to replace him. The result is a concentration of DH talent the game has never seen before. "It's unusual," says veteran Texas Rangers scout Mel Didier. "You usually have two or three of those Hall of Fame caliber guys, but seven or eight...
...museum must already have the podcast on his or her iPod, visitors must anticipate their trip to the museum and download accordingly, requiring a degree of planning unusual among many student visitors. Moreover, there is the question of whether the podcast restricts its audience to only those who can afford a digital music player. But Hays says the popularity of iPods among students at Harvard is high enough that no student should have difficulty borrowing one from a friend. Due in large part to these limitations, museum podcasts are still a very new concept. Hays speculates that they are offered...
...medium-sized Vietnamese companies. Cany predicts the number of private banks in Vietnam will fall by at least half to less than 20 within five years due to failure or merger. Their only hope is to expand their reach and sophistication before competition heats up. "You can't afford to miss the boat," says Winsbury. "You've got to grow fast." After all, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities aren't much good to businesses that die young...
...there were doubters. Reeve was just one person--and a wealthy one too, who could afford the best care. In the 2 1/2 years since his death, however, locomotor training has gone mainstream, with at least 17 hospitals and rehab centers in the U.S. and a handful in Canada and Europe offering it. So far, the patients who have undergone the therapy number only in the hundreds, but about a third of them have been 21 or younger, a fact that is not only helping doctors spare the very patients in whom loss of mobility hits the hardest but also...