Word: pocketable
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...least 95% of residents in a given state. Affordability is defined as premiums costing no more than 13% of adjusted gross income for those earning more than 300% of the federal poverty line (or around $66,000 for a family of four); for those earning less, the out-of-pocket maximum ranges down to 3% of income. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...corruption, but Grameen Bank now has 28,000 staff, 8 million borrowers and 2,600 branches. We lend out over $100 million each month and have a similar amount coming back each month, handling this physically in the villages. It's very easy to put money in your pocket. But the amazing thing is that cases of corruption are so rare...
Michael L. Best, a faculty associate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, opened the “Communication in Human Development: The Freedom Connection” event last night by reaching into his pocket to retrieve his cell phone. He flipped the device open and said, “Hello? Mom? I told you I had an event tonight!” and consequently sparked a discussion about the role of technology in advanced countries and the developing world. The event was sponsored by the International Development Research Center, an organization that has pioneered the use of technology...
...have even more reason to be scared. “On Halloween of my freshman year,” she wrote, “I found myself running through Harvard Yard because my best friend (at least so far), Ruby, was pursuing me and threatening to kill me, her pocket knife unsheathed, screaming something like, ‘you bitch, I’ll kill...
...traditional plastic bottle--for 35 in places like the southern coastal provinces, which have been hard hit by the slowdown in exports. Coke's China president, Doug Jackson, says he'll take what he can get in a tough economy. "If you have a little less kuai in your pocket," he says, using the colloquial word for Chinese currency, "folks look for where do I save that one kuai. Instead of drinking nothing, I can handle that cheaper one. It's just giving them an option...