Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel downright extravagant. I am not bothered so much by the actual loss of money as by the mentality that fuels my spending. Why only order an appetizer when I'm out for dinner in order to save a few bucks? If I can afford it, why begrudge myself of immediate gratification and the pleasure of being rash? My concern, however, is with the accompanying attitude. Once I expect to eat out often and buy nice clothes, at what point does it stop? When does the extra $4 I spend on dinner become the extra $50 I spend on shoes...
...Romanian orphan. Steele's brother Ben Hiatt is skeptical that Starr's office asked about the adoption just to see if she could be vulnerable to threats from the White House. He says the queries he received about the adoption--"Why did she do it? How could she afford it?"--led him to think it was Starr's office that wanted to use the issue against her. And several weeks ago, an anonymous caller told Steele's sister that Steele should back Willey's story "if she knows what's good for her and her son." The family has received...
...After you've set your rules and boundaries, but your children make the decision not to follow them, it's the time for punishment...Make the punishment memorable. Make the punishment appropriate to the crime...This is not a test you can afford to fail." (Parenting for Dummies...
...Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them...
...rest of us still need to pick up our sledge-hammers and get to work, so that tomorrow there will still be clothing and food and so that we can still afford to pontificate on the finer points of environmental regulation...