Word: affords
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Very little of the coursework we have studied here will make a direct contribution to our chosen professions, and very little will substantially increase our material worth. Yet our essential humanity depends upon our regarding ourselves as something other than productive machines, a luxury the marketplace does not afford...
...says, "You can't afford when you are training full-time to do much work." He adds that "rowers are notorious for being poor...
...Bill meant that returning veterans across the country would be able to afford a college education. Prior to the war, Conant, originally from middle-class Dorchester, had created new "National Scholarships" for students from the southern and western states to broaden Harvard's student body. But it took the war and the G.I. Bill to have a significant impact on the homogeneous student population...
When rent protection for low-income tenants expires this December 31, however, Koundakjian expects her rent to increase to at least $1,300 a month, a price she says she could never afford...
...Government as they are in the policies Barry pursued during the first three of his four terms as mayor. Nor does the case against him rest on the fact that he was caught smoking crack in a Washington hotel. No, the problem is that black Americans can no longer afford to invest their dwindling political capital in elected officials such as Barry, whose erratic performance in public office and soap-operaish private life lend support to the most racist assumptions about black incompetence...