Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wills will have a powerful role in shaping the monarchy in the coming century, and as Starkey points out, Buckingham Palace is beginning to make use of him. He cannot afford to stumble. The burdens are enormous, but at least he is surrounded by billowing gusts of goodwill. He may be that stable leader who is so badly needed to strengthen a besieged but valuable institution...
...doesn't care whose toes he steps on to get there. "Dole has calculated that he must move farther toward the center," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "He is purposefully trying to upset the conservative base to appeal to the moderate middle and he thinks he can afford to do so." Dole has enraged the NRA by reneging on a pledge to repeal the assault weapons ban. The organization, which claims 3 million members, says it will now concentrate its efforts on Senate and congressional races. Dole has also upset Ralph Reed, the influential executive director of the Christian Coalition...
...figured there was no way they could afford that," Daniliuk said. "But we waited a couple of days and sniffed around until we saw her moving...
...resources are way bigger--$1,600 a month--we couldn't afford that," he said. "We're paying closer to $500 a month. She has four paid staff. She can afford that. We're all volunteers...
...Union Summer by a desire to help those less privileged. The daughter of an El Paso, Texas, janitor, Campos had felt the power of a union up close: before the hospital where her mother cleans was unionized in 1989, "she had to work two jobs, and we couldn't afford health insurance," Campos says. She moved to the U.S. when she was seven and talks of class struggle as if the phrase had never gone out of style. "Around campus, I see so many Mexicans cleaning dorms," she says. "We are all immigrants, but I got lucky. Since...