Word: affords
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...have insurance, I have had to pay $3,800 out of pocket, a huge amount for someone like me. It’s about the cost of my rent for six months. I have a second tooth that also really needs a crown, but I can’t afford it now, so it will have to wait, although I run the risk of damaging it further (and, god forbid, of losing the tooth).” —Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) student
...fact is that most graduate students simply cannot afford dental insurance or necessary dental care. The majority of graduate students are either taking out enormous loans to finance their post-baccalaureate education or must support themselves and their families on less than $20,000 a year. Faced with a choice of spending their limited funds on rent or for an oral checkup, most students forego a trip to the dentist and hope that problems will not arise or can be ignored. If their luck wears thin during their long years as a graduate student, their options were, until recently, limited...
...before the College, or Congress, can come to students’ rescue, we will continue to suffer from ever higher textbook and coursepack prices. Until comprehensive action can be taken at any level, professors and teaching fellows (TFs) must learn to balance cost and content to help students afford their courses...
...industry was deregulated in 1978, but you wouldn't know it from all the extra baggage it carries. The main offenders: ever increasing taxes, lack of government spending to build a modern air-traffic-control system and airports, and countless rules imposed without consideration of how the airlines can afford to comply. All told, the airline industry is the most regulated "deregulated" business out there. The government, oddly, has been too tough on airlines in some respects (through taxation) and too accommodating in others (through anticompetitive legislation such as the Wright Amendment, which limits flights out of Dallas). The industry...
...gases? Didn't President Bush say the U.S. would not sign the Kyoto Protocol because it would hurt the U.S. economy too much? How many Hurricane Katrinas will it take to make the U.S., the world's biggest emitter of pollutant gases, figure out what it can or cannot afford? Anne Fraser Ladybrand, South Africa Enough is enough! I saw the scenes of utter devastation in the newspaper and on television, and my blood is boiling! Shame on Bush. Why did it take so long for him to aid the victims? How many people died waiting for help? The buck...