Despite the rollout of the world's largest antiretroviral treatment programme, people with HIV had often found life insurance costs most prohibitive, at about four or five times the usual premium.
While everyone fixated on the Reggie Bush fiasco, the SEC was left waving in the background, "Hey, the N.C.A.A. is looking into the recruiting hostesses at Tennessee!" Well, now it's got something to really crow about: the prohibitive favorite for the Heisman Trophy is drawing allegations the way Lindsay Lohan draws paparazzi.
As funeral costs become increasingly prohibitive and attitudes about the hereafter change, cremation is on the rise.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank have already promised $1.5 billion to tame the waters.The price of restraining the river used to be prohibitive: it cost about $20m to protect 1km of a river's embankments, using stones (trucked in from India and paid for in hard currency) and other structural materials.
Not many people are, and I am sympathetic to the complaints about the prohibitive price of theatergoing these days.
Then you have the whole thrust of religious morality, which is prohibitive, negative and disparaging about sexual behaviour.
Most of those polled believe that higher education is the key to staying in the middle class, but many worry about its prohibitive cost and inaccessibility.
Perhaps the most distressing aspect of the president's action is that he appears to believe, and act on, the lies disseminated by the right, particularly members of the Tea Party, about the prohibitive cost of environmental protection, rather than acknowledging the truth: that the cost of not protecting the environment is overwhelming and irreversible.
While environmentalists may welcome visionary new designs, some are sceptical about the prohibitive cost of such state-of-the-art technologies.
