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That love was first and foremost for Nicaragua's poor, out of whose ranks he'd risen. When a desperate father appealed for Arguello's help because he couldn't afford the expensive medical treatment to treat his 8-year-old daughter's leukemia, the fighter made the cause his own and tried to shame two Nicaraguan pharmaceutical companies into providing free treatment. When they hesitated, the champ came out swinging...
...benefit from higher prices and so would not be willing to sell. Hedgers, afraid of soaring prices, would buy oil futures, driving the price to unheard-of levels. Worse still, we would have to worry about the oil suppliers themselves getting in on the futures-price action. They can afford to take on huge risks in the oil-futures market because they make such large profits by comparison...
...fewer than 8% of professional women born since 1956 have left the workforce for a year or more during their prime childbearing age. Most working mothers, the Census Bureau reports, are back in the workforce within a year of having a child; better-educated women and those who can afford to drop out are actually less likely to. Rather than the pull of the playground, 86% of women in one survey cited the push of a hostile or inflexible workplace as their reason for leaving their jobs...
...Information Center in Amsterdam’s Red Light District—the former sex worker told me that the one reason she decided to become a full-time prostitute was simply because she wanted a dog, a constant source of companionship on the streets, and could not otherwise afford one. But that reason seemed to belie her insistence that the decision to begin a career in prostitution was one she made “as an adult...
...health care? And health care too. I remember certainly on the campaign trail, John McCain and his ideas - basically, bottom line, allowing businesses to afford to pay for health care, to provide health care and to give employees options, and Obama scoffed at that. His campaign thought that that was ridiculous. It's funny now to hear him kind of go to some of John McCain's ideas. John McCain had some good ideas about bolstering the economy through businesses so that families could afford to pay for health care and making sure that no one was falling through...