Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GENERAL POWELL, FOR AMERICA'S SAKE, can you afford not to run? DARLENE J. CARROLL Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...Mike Newell (Four Weddings) and adapted by Charles Wood from Beryl Bainbridge's novel, has the convincingly seedy look--almost the dank smell--of Liverpool after World War II. Even a visiting theater troupe seem tired and tatty under their gaudy makeup. With baths a luxury, the locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth as snake oil. Grant here...
...established an undercover house adjacent to the compound and installed eight agents there under the guise of students at Texas State Technical College. But they were too old to be convincing. They carried briefcases and drove cars too new and expensive for students to afford. Raid planners gravely underestimated David Koresh's savvy and suspicion--the review team discovered that Koresh had had checks run on the cars and found that three of the four had no credit liens outstanding...
...still a belief that you can't get re-elected unless you bring home the bacon,'' says McCain. "I don't think that's the way voters feel anymore ... They don't understand why, when we're asking people to make a sacrifice on Medicare, we feel we can afford these other kinds of extravagant spending.'' As voters ponder that double standard, they might wonder whether those who vowed to change the ways of Washington have already been taken...
...million people live below the poverty line. The embargo also limits the country's ability to make an industrial recovery. Sanctions-busting on a grand scale -- mainly through Romania and Bulgaria and, to a lesser extent, Macedonia -- keeps stores filled with all manner of goods, but few people can afford them at whatever price...