Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final project for V.E.S. 160 is a large illustration book assignment, so I get the magazines because the students can't afford them," Stilgoe said. "[Playboy is] an important part of the visual realm. It provides a good indicator of how conservative we are compared to France and Germany...
...limits to how much they can cough up. A payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion, to be paid over 25 years, and even to many of them the amount originally seemed pie-in-the-sky high. Then something interesting happened: tobacco stocks rallied as Wall Street ground down...
...increase above that starts to make the industry's economics go awry, including its 30% operating margins. I have no idea where the breaking point is but there surely is one. To me, $300 billion is a lot of money, no matter who's paying. If Big Tobacco can afford a bit more, fine. But if this is about money--which it seems to be--it's a mistake to suddenly confuse tobacco execs for bottomless atms. It took four decades to get them this close to owning up to any culpability. It's a bigger coming out than Ellen...
...grant would pay for around 60 percent of the cost of connecting to and staying on the Internet. While the Administration touts the move as a way to level the playing field between rich and poor, it's mainly a subsidy aimed at the middle class schools that can afford to buy the expensive computers to hook those Internet connecting wires into. Rich schools don't need the money; poor ones can't afford the necessary computers anyway. Not quite eliminating the gap between the info haves and have-not's -- but at least a start...
...coach, Scott Anderson, who has proven he knows how to win and does an excellent job recruiting talent. So unless this year's players want to be responsible for sending a program that was shaping up to be a prize of Harvard athletics into the toilet, we cannot afford any more embarrassing losses like Saturday...