Word: affordable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's so wrong with Social Security? Only that it systematically undercompensates the needy, systematically overcompensates the non-needy, discourages the elderly from working and forces much of the expense of the system onto poor workers who can least afford...
Councillor Saundra M. Graham said, however, that she was concerned about the possible impacts of such a program on low-income tenants. She said that some tenants may not be able to afford the improvements that housing inspectors would recommend...
Another hole was cut through the Berlin Wall to the roaring cheers of spectators. East Berliners continued to flood the western half of the city, buying all they could afford with their $55 of government "welcome money...
Margot and Howard Grim, a young couple who moved with three children from Sonoma County, Calif., to Woodinville, Wash., so they could afford to buy a house, say they have not encountered overt antagonism so much as occasional turns of a subtle cold shoulder. In their case it has been directed at their North Californian "alternative life-style" preferences such as Zen meditation and organic gardening. "Oh, you guys are so granola!" one staid neighbor told them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians...
...news is that they don't get any extra financial aid to compensate them for the additional expense. With their already tight budgets strained even further by the new regulations, these students face some difficult decisions--such as how to afford both health insurance and books...