Word: affords
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...child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years ago, before Uganda became the first country to have its debt burden eased under a World Bank?administered initiative, classrooms like Kansiime's were half empty. Parents couldn't afford the $40-$50 annual tuition. Then the World Bank program, called the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative, reduced Uganda's loan payments on the condition that the savings be channeled into health care, agricultural development and free primary education. Over the past few years, debt relief has been touted by everyone from...
Then there was the 1994 team. That’s what most American baseball fans talk about, if they ever mention the Expos. Too bad they had the best record in baseball, but the strike put an end to their season. Too bad they couldn’t afford to keep Ken Hill, or John Wetteland, or Larry Walker, or Marquis Grissom, who all made the playoffs the following year with their new teams. A “what if,” at best...
...Bash, as people call the Pepsi Summerbash, is basically Chicago’s answer to 106 & Park, where top 40 rappers and singers play 15-minute sets and DJs perform ridiculous skits. It was a three-day event, but since we could only afford tickets to one night, we had to miss R. Kelly, D12, and Twista in favor of an incredibly awesome lineup featuring Ma$e, J-Kwon, Houston, Jojo, and the Ying Yang Twins. I picked Juice up at the train station around 5:30 and we gunned it straight to Taco Bell, where a group of short...
Number of Big Digs Harvard can afford: about...
BUSH IS PRAISED FOR BEING BRAVE AND decisive for the actions he took after the attacks of 9/11, but why, when his bravery and snap decisions based on trumped-up evidence have proved disastrously wrong and damaging? Neither the U.S., in its long-term interests, nor the world can afford another four years of Bush and his unilateralism...