Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buying a car, and you can't afford to make a mistake. What do you do? Consult your friends and your Ouija board? Pore over newspapers and magazine ads? Endure dealership pitches and test drives? Lie awake at night worried you'll screw up? All of the above...
Fragmentation already threatens to destroy the world's most influential democracy and we cannot afford to turn our backs on the things that we have in common as residents and citizens of the United States of America...
...House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program will be paid. But the new program's immediate benefit, i.e. money, goes to Harvard students. In a trickle-down process, we seem to be hoping that by encouraging the participation of students on work-study who might not be able to afford volunteering, more elementary school-aged children will learn to read. This is not very realistic; we don't think the program will lead to a massive influx of new volunteers because neither PBHA nor HAND is currently able to handle such an expansion...
Some estimates indicate that more than 2,000 of the city's 14,000 to 16,000 residents formerly protected by rent control will be unable to afford higher rents...
...corporation is a subsidiary of Just-A-Start Corp., a non-profit company that has guaranteed no new rent increases for the next two years and has assured long term afford-ability for the low-and moderate-income tenants of the building...