Word: affords
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Section 8 certificates entitle their holders to live in private housing, paying only what they can afford. The federal government covers the difference between rent paid by the tenant and the market rate charged by the landlord...
Despite its success, Harvard cannot afford to get complacent at this point in the season. The Crimson travels to Yale this coming weekend to play in the national team tournament. Most likely Harvard will face Princeton again who this time will be looking for revenge...
...actually doing it--underscores the comic principle that animates Hecht's first collection of fiction. Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people--psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators--to minister to her and her possessions' needs. Yet in spite of all this--or perhaps because of it--she is a psychological wreck...
However, Shakespeare's ascent into "high culture" occurred relatively early. As soon as Charles II assumed the throne and the Restoration period began, managers traded the large open-air theater for a smaller indoor theaters that catered exclusively to aristocrats who could afford high-priced tickets. And some time after that, the study of Shakespeare entered Literature and Arts...
...whose approaches to politics and government are diametrically opposed. The result, as the President undoubtedly intended, is political stalemate. The third answer is that Russia has no time to lose; it is still stumbling along a rocky path to economic, constitutional and political reform, and it cannot afford to stop...