Word: affords
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...comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). 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. But unlike so many contemporary fictional neurotics, she is not unpleasant...
...comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). 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. But unlike so many contemporary fictional neurotics, she is not unpleasant...
...they don't see anything wrong with that. From their perspective, a family should live where it can afford...
While he acknowledges that talk of evicted tenants is "sexy", he argues that such cases are only a small percentage of the whole. Most people, he says, can afford a small increase in their monthly rent...
...early elections can be called." Kostov said. But impatient leaders of Bulgaria's three major trade unions have called a nationwide strike beginning Wednesday that may turn urgency into desperation. To union workers already struggling with low wages and skyrocketing prices, political protest is a luxury they can ill afford. "The situation is the worst ever, maybe in the history of Bulgaria," said Elena Altimirska, a student. "At the moment, the intelligentsia are at these rallies," but when the workers strike, she said, "then it will be very bad for everybody...