The price tag for life's basic necessities — everything from milk to haircuts to Lipitor to electricity, and especially housing — is more than twice the national average.
These days, as consumer electronics are increasingly seen by students as academic and social necessities, everything from CD players, bubble jet printers and computers to portable DVD's, large-screen televisions and electronic keyboards are finding their way into dorms.
"The agencies are extremely cautious, extremely focused on their responsibility to maintain the culture of proportionality and necessity in everything they do.
Spinoza's definition of "blessedness" was "the intellectual love of God," in which the mind sees the necessity of everything in the world as simply and indubitably as Plato's slave perceived the necessity of the Pythagorean theorem.
That they are still in use at all is emblematic of the way the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has long operated: underfunded and saddled with the lofty task of carrying the entire city without pause, the M.T.A., by necessity, stretches everything long past its expiration date.
Once she was replaced, others flourished through necessity, and everything started to settle.
Poor people pay more of their earnings for necessities and everything else.
Our city is run on the necessity of making everything over-complicated.
A program note by Strømgren was helpful: "The necessity to formulate everything in words, even the theme of necessity itself, is possibly a disease of our times.
We were forced out of necessity to do everything for ourselves, but it was really a good thing to have because it just really made us independent and also it means that once you have people in places that are helping you and working for you, you really appreciate it and you don't become a lazy, jaded S.O.B. MR: You couldn't have been too jaded when you were racking up those Juno awards.
