Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Legal fees, however, drove up the price of the project, according to those familiar with the dispute. When it came time to lease the new property, the developer had little choice but to turn the site over to a major chain, HMV, because no sole proprietor store could afford to cover the costs...
...clear that Gifford's preservationist vision does not square with economic reality. The area is, in some sense, a victim of its historic success. With merchants clamoring for space here, rents are now among the highest in the state--so high that small, owner-operated stores can no longer afford them...
...reason. "I don't believe Mexico will be allowed to go wrong," she says, alluding to the vast amounts of foreign money invested there. What the press has reported as a negative -- two-thirds of Mexican stocks owned by foreigners -- she regards as a positive. The U.S. can't afford not to bail out Mexico, and late last week, it offered to do just that with a $7 billion emergency slush fund...
Winona, who took the name Ryder when she started acting, would commute with her folks by car (they couldn't afford the airfare) to Los Angeles -- a nine- hour drive. The long haul was a blessing in disguise: because traveling was such an ordeal, Ryder turned down roles in many a cheesy horror film. Her debut, Lucas, made when she was 13, set the tone for her later choices. It was a sensible, sensitive tale of ordinary kids growing up. Soon she got her first two defining parts: in Beetlejuice and in Heathers, Daniel Waters' blistering portrait of suicidal teens...
...shrink, but at the same time they have more and more things they want it to be on top of," says former CIA director William Webster. In leading the agency into the future, the next director will have to decide, more than anything eelse, what secrets the U.S. can afford not to know...