Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy enough for those who can afford spacious homes and private therapy to sneer at their financial inferiors and label their pathetic moments of stardom vulgar. But if I had a talk show, it would feature a whole different cast of characters and category of crimes than you'll ever find on the talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into...
...most widely read political magazine in the country, now," he said. "And if you are in that market you can't afford not to read this magazine...
...chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties and other pacts are also languishing. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says Congress is "flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success--if it comes--can launch a new internationalism...
...always had a certain sound in mind and was haunted by that," Ptashne says. "The motivation for what I have done, particularly starting a company, was to afford a better and better violin...
...even more when you get outside the cities. The people there are really dependent on their local governments. People haven't been paid in months, and they're starving. Ten years ago people couldn't eat because food was not available. Today the food is available, but nobody can afford...