Word: affords
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Only the richest countries can afford to explore these questions, of course, and while most expeditions are made up of scientists from many lands, the world's deep-sea powers--the U.S., France, Japan and, until economic troubles all but ended its program, Russia--are always aware of who's ahead in the quest for the bottom. At the moment, it's probably Japan, not least because of the triumphant touchdown in the Challenge Deep last March of its 10.5-ton, $41.5 million ROV called Kaiko. The Japanese got into ocean research well after the French, Americans and Russians...
...these recent developments can--and should--be blamed in part on poor foreign policy, but a call for a new diplomatic and strategic leadership from the U.S. has not materialized. We can no longer afford to waffle on such issues as the expansion of NATO and our military commitment to United Nations missions. We are indeed, as the Republican Senate warns, the solitary possessors of superpower status in the post-Cold War era, and we must live up to that status...
...rest of one's life. In the laboratory experiments reported last week, the obese mice started regaining weight as soon as the injections stopped. Even with a boost from something like leptin, cautions Dr. Ahmed Kissebah, an obesity expert at the Medical College of Wisconsin, the formerly fat cannot afford to become less vigilant. "People will still have to lose weight the hard way," he predicts. "It'll be like diabetes: you still have to exercise and watch your food intake...
...Affordable housing doesn't mean places for poverty people to live," he said. "It means that if you can't afford to buy a house, you can afford an apartment...
...troops on the ground to a "regional" bombing campaign, although the relevant U.N. resolution authorizes strikes only in and around a safe area. It was still unclear just who would make the decision to launch those strikes. At one point Christopher said, "The people of Bosnia simply cannot afford any more empty threats," thereby suggesting, perhaps unwittingly, that the many previous challenges to the Serbs had been bluffs...