Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can?t afford decent light bulbs. Pacino?s performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for a dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic." Nostalgia is the chief feature of "City Hall", notes Corliss. "The film harkens back a decade or two, to the days when...
Visiting Professor of Government James W. Ceaser said Gramm can't afford too many humiliations like last night since his political career is at stake as well as his candidacy...
Turk says the higher rates are "impossible for many low- and middle-class families to afford" and that some families have had to find second jobs to pay their rent...
...Much of the glory of McKim, Mead & White has been lost to the wrecking ball and we cannot afford to let additional treasures be destroyed. The Great Hall is one of the last of its kind and certainly the last accessible to the general public: while the Harvard and University clubs of Boston and New York both have similar halls by McKim, Mead & White, neither are open for the edification of the public. To destroy this structure would be to sever Americans from their own history, one of the most pernicious and evil of undertakings...
Many African nations are poor in part because visionaries prescribed policies that not even superpowers, such as the Soviet Union, could afford. Food aid has brought food shortages, many now argue, by allowing Africa's governments to maintain in place policies that discriminate against local farmers. Structural adjustment has stabilized Africa's macro-economies but brought little economic growth. Africa's people have paid the costs of "free" public services, foreign "aid" and "free" markets...