Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign financing and free candidates from the distraction of fundraising. It would also ensure that qualified candidates are able to run for office regardless of their own economic background. Hopefully, this will enable candidates to be judged on their ideas, not on the commercials they are able to afford...
...first tricks of launching a new career is knowing when to fold the old one. "Examine if you can really afford to do this, take an honest look at your skills and abilities and hook up with a good financial planner before you run out and do something too quickly," says Sam Cotton, 52, of Arroyo Grande, Calif., who retired in 1996 from his job at Pacific Bell. Cotton wanted to retire two years earlier than he finally did. "I looked at my financial options and realized that it would not be in my best interests," he says...
...days a week, at a local garment factory. But because she was new and the factory paid piece rate, she made only $1 an hour. "Sometimes we had nothing for ourselves. I made less than $100 a week." She and her husband made so little money they couldn't afford to live together. He continued to sleep on the floor of the restaurant that employed him. She slept in a basement owned by relatives. Her husband would ask angrily, "Why don't you work harder?" "But," says Yu, "I couldn't work any harder...
...workers is driving many of the changes. "We've not faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...
Frustrated with their intransigence, Clinton finally pulled out a trump card: a badly weakened King Hussein of Jordan, in the U.S. for treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Gaunt and hairless, the King lectured the leaders and their aides. "You can't afford for this to fail," he said. "You owe this to your people, to your children, to future generations." For an hour afterward, his eloquence lifted the mood. When it waned, Clinton tried his own stagecraft. Patient and receptive so far, the President stormed out of the room just after midnight, looking at no one. "That was a powerful...