Word: affordability
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...Cronjé says. "Black schools have soccer fields." Nonetheless, government officials have pushed for years to get more blacks on the Springbok team. Rugby clubs say there is little black talent to recruit for world-class tournaments - a reflection, in part, of the fact that few black students can afford to attend the élite high schools that groom most of the country's rugby stars. Springbok manager Yeye faults the white-dominated club and provincial level rugby system for failing to promote black players. "We've got 40 million blacks at home," he says, "and I've got only...
...have to develop a cult customer," says Panichgul, "someone who is looking for this kind of elaborate work every season." And someone who can afford...
...been in politics almost as long as he's been in the pulpit: he ensured that his rivals for the unionist vote were beaten at the ballot box before he took the plunge with Sinn Fein, so his internal critics currently have nowhere to go. Politically, he can afford the loss of his church. The Free Presbyterians, when children are counted, still amount to only a little over 5% of the DUP's vote...
...Whenever they begin, then, the withdrawals are unlikely to last very long. Many experts believe the threat of a wider civil war - and the regional instability that would follow - means that the U.S. cannot afford to reduce its presence in Iraq much below 130,000 troops for the next year and probably beyond that. And so it could turn out that just six months after the long-awaited drawdowns begin, they stop again. The remaining forces, Pentagon officials report, will give the Army some badly needed margin to rest and retrain its brigades, but only a little. Some officers...
...nation's annual budget is believed to be spent on the 450,000-strong army. Inflation is running at more than 30%. Last month's fuel hike led to a tripling of bus fares on some routes, leaving many of Rangoon's estimated 2.4 million commuters unable to afford their ride to work. The prices of basic foodstuffs like rice and eggs are also skyrocketing. "At this rate, even a meal every day might become a luxury," says housekeeper May Oo, who now spends 60% of her salary on her daily commute into Rangoon. Even upper-middle-class families...