Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing we learned is that you can't afford not to show up in the first 10 minutes of an NCAA Tournament game," senior captain Will Kohler said. "This isn't the regular season. You can't just give a team a one-goal lead...
...this single, unemployed mother the government assistance means she can afford to travel 100 miles every few weeks to visit her son in a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed youths...
Newt Gingrich was very much like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland--a disembodied grin hovering over Election Day, present but invisible by choice. He could afford to smile over his party's apparent retention of the House. But to help ensure that victory, he had to keep himself out of sight during the campaign season...
...afford lapses like that," junior guard Mike Scott said. "We have to play 40 minutes of basket-ball...
Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...