Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Primakov cannot wave Russia's current disaster away. Wages have to be paid on time, even if the government still cannot afford payment of back salaries for a while. The nation's idled factories have to start production again--even if they are not producing anything of great quality. Moscow theorists say the Russian public gives its leaders a three-month honeymoon. Primakov, who took office in September, is halfway through his. It is time to step out from the shadows...
Then ABB cried poverty, telling the development agency, "If you rescind the tax exemption, we'll owe $1.2 million in taxes, which we can't afford...
...subsidy is a good policy because it does not take away the choice of an abortion from those who can't afford one," she says...
...catch, though, is that the Saudis are reluctant to see Bin Laden tried. "The Saudis may have plenty of grounds to try him at home, but politically they can't afford to," says McGirk. "They certainly don't want him tried in the U.S., which would turn him into a martyr throughout the Muslim world and make the Saudi regime look bad." So even if the Taliban squeeze out Bin Laden, the Saudis would rather see him quietly disappear from the scene than turn up on CNN in an orange jumpsuit...
...TIME Midwest bureau chief Wendy Cole says Feingold compensated with hard work -- and a little luck. "Neumann ran a flood of negative TV ads that were a big turnoff for voters," she says, "Feingold might have gotten dragged into the mudfest, but he couldn't afford it." Feingold also concentrated his get-out-the-vote efforts in the Madison capital, where his local margin of victory -- 30,000 votes -- was the same as in the overall race. Feingold was no Jimmy Stewart; he approved a small number of Democrat issue ads paid for by the party. But Feingold showed...