Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lying awake nights sweating over Elizabeth Berkley's career? Relax. The Showgirls star is playing GOLDIE HAWN's husband's mistress in The First Wives Club. "We have to afford people some mistakes," says Hawn of Berkley. "She's a lovely girl." The sisterly goodwill has apparently spread to the whole cast. Of working with Hawn and BETTE MIDLER, DIANE KEATON says, "It has heightened my impression of how talented they are. They're the major fascinating women of all time." How will such nice women manufacture the vengeful feelings their characters need? Easy, says Midler. "I'll think...
...along with hundreds of students, alumni and faculty who have signed statements of support, simply don't want to see more homeless on the streets, and we want longtime Cambridge residents to be able to afford their homes. --Shoshana L. Weiner...
...from this category) of Harvard will be allowed to move into the units that Harvard isn't selling for high profit once current residents are forced to move out. Housing is currently open to everyone, affiliates and community alike, low and moderate income as well as faculty who can afford to pay more. Do we really want to exclude Cambridge residents from a significant portion of Cambridge housing? Do we really want to live in a community that is exclusively Harvard...
TEARS CAME TO MY EYES AS I WAS READING about Elisa's fate. If something so cruel happened in a country like the U.S., which can afford a web of social institutions such as the Child Welfare Administration, homeless shelters and the Legal Aid Society--even though they were unable to save Elisa's life--try to imagine what is taking place in countries like mine, where even a pale shadow of that support system is an unreachable dream. DOMINGOS FERNANDO REFINETTI Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...comfort may lie in the knowledge that for all the changes Gingrich has wrought and the controversy he has generated, neither Clinton nor Dole can afford to let him expire. A top Dole operative admitted last week that the Senate majority leader needs Newt around to play bad cop, to attack Clinton next year, while Dole poses as presidential, safely above the undisciplined, baby-boom fray. A critically wounded Newt can't perform that mission well. Once just a GOPAC mission, "Newt support" is now a G.O.P. imperative...