Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work offers an entire floor as well as several other tables for smokers' use, as do many other establishments. One could argue that confining smokers to overpriced Square hangouts like mine means effectively limiting the practice to a wealthy elite, but I would respond that those who can afford regular two dollar donations to Phillip Morris et al. should not be crying poverty. And as long as tobacco conglomorates continue shamelessly to target they young, the working class, minorities and women, smoking will remain an equal-opportunity vice...
...says, "the bottom line is who does the best job on campaigning." Moderate groups concur. The National Education Association and People for the American Way recently agreed to cooperate with local coalitions in as many as 10 states to oppose right-wing candidates. Neither side in this battle can afford to be complacent again...
...American justice system is like the American health-care system: wonderful if you can afford to pay for it. Casar O. Freytes San Antonio, Texas
...still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children. But I can't even afford to send my daughter to the dentist for a cavity." Terri is proud that she has never been on welfare, but she feels little kinship with the politicians who extol workers like her. "I feel lost," she says. "Now everything goes up but people's wages. Either you're rich...
...night, and I still can't make ends meet." She knows that there are people on welfare who are collecting more than she does. "But I believe in earning my way." The family has no savings at all. Son Jodie just graduated from high school, but Bernice couldn't afford to buy his graduation pictures. The mantels are filled with trophies from the daughters' track meets; but it's a struggle to find the cash to send them to the events. "Sometimes I just have to tell my kids they just can't go," she says...