Word: affords
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...could not afford the luxury of seeking obscurity [from the press]," Cochran said. "We were at war, but it was an honorable...
...Friday afternoon, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry, agreed on a force of "several thousand." But the two sides failed to resolve the central issue: whether the Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
...revenue source for the magazine ended last year, Knox said. But because the IR is part of the International Relations Council, which runs the profitable model United Nations conferences, the magazine can afford not to be profitable...
...thousand), or even battalions (roughly 1,000 men)." Although the two countries have agreed that the Russians will supply up to 2,000 soldiers to carry out support functions in Bosnia, Zarakhovich notes that politically it will be much more difficult for Yeltsin to commit combat troops. "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...
Harvard still can achieve goals two and three, but it cannot afford to lose another Ivy League game...