Word: affords
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...nominationby warning that Republicans would squander an historic chance to control both Congress and the White House if they abandoned the political center. "Let me say this as plainly as I can," Specter, 65, said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview with TIME editors today,Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a popular GOP social moderate, said that he himself declined...
...from Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, along with more than 250 others. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, said it might send troops to Burundi if the situation deteriorates and threatened extremists on both sides with a war crimes tribunal for committing atrocities. "I don't think the international community can afford anothersituation like there was in Rwanda," said French Ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee. "It would be unthinkable...
...front door, James dived out after her. "I grabbed her hand before she floated out of the front yard," he says. "She began paddling, and with water up to our necks, I hung on to her all the way down to the next intersection." The couple could hardly afford to wait all night for help to come. James is 83; his wife...
...like Bangladesh. Reversing a half-century of narrowing inequality, Reagan-Bush policies pushed America towards even greater economic disparity. If the Republicans again succeed in limiting the government's already feeble attempts to empower the disadvantaged, the resulting misery and unrest may destroy American society. The American people cannot afford to let the government abandon its obligations...
...picket line, and like the NFL in 1987, a new collective bargaining agreement to the owner's liking--i.e. one with a meaningful salary cap--will be crafted. The owners will then claim that the new agreement will allow small market teams--who supposedly, in the present system, cannot afford to pay top players--to compete with big market teams...