Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Events like "ski trips help bond the group, but we constantly need to think of what's going to happen after we leave," Fraser said. "If we don't have the money--which we certainly don't--we just can't afford to have group trips like that...
...same time he was wooing foreign investors. He also cemented his reputation as a tough manager who didn't hesitate to dress down his subordinates in public. At one meeting, he noticed an official smoking an expensive brand of foreign cigarettes and demanded to know how he could afford them on his salary. At another, a bureaucrat reported that his department had increased production that month "around 5% or 6%." Zhu broke in: "Comrade Bureau Director, is it 5% or 6%? Is it 5.1% or 5.9%? When it comes to statistics, we must be very exact...
...novelist's expectations may be modest, but while writing he can afford to do what a reader does: cast the movie version. Some of Klein's daydreaming proved prescient. "In my mind Libby Holden was Kathy Bates. I was also thinking of Emma Thompson as Susan Stanton--because Emma Thompson can do anything!" On his directors' list were Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia), Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) and, at the top, Mike Nichols...
...because his campaign largely focused on small ideas like V-chips and school uniforms, once re-elected, he lacked direction. Further, he seemed increasingly listless--more interested in his golf game than governing. This posed a huge problem for congressional Democrats. As a lame duck, Clinton could afford to coast through the next four year on automatic pilot. They couldn't. Democrats in Congress had become so reliant on Clinton that without his direction they risked heading into the '98 election empty-handed and empty-headed. The Democrats had gotten into bed with Clinton (metaphorically, of course...
...suggestion that "locally-owned business serving residents of the surrounding working-class neighborhoods will be replaced by six floors of upscale chain stores and high-priced apartments" implies that Holmes nationwide chain stores will be exceedingly high-class and that the local residents will not be able to afford them. If this is true, it would result in a negative externality: the angry local residents would be forced out of local shopping areas by incoming affluent citizens, thereby disintegrating the current community...