Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clientele of fast-food restaurants largely consists of students, youth and lower income workers--people who generally have little discretionary income and cannot afford fancy meals at the sit-down restaurants that fill the Square. When the fast-food restaurants they would like to visit are barred, these people must give up eating out as often or cut back on other purchases. In this way, the fight over the Square is a typical class struggle: a rich minority suppressing the poor majority...
Still, the blame for decreasingly significant encores does not rest entirely with performance groups. It is the job of the audience to afford an amount of praise that is commensurate with the level of performance. Not every performing group is equal, and neither should be the amount of clapping to praise them...
...concerned about that as I am about people's personal losses," Baker said. "We're just trying to help people who had things stolen that couldn't really afford to lose anything...
JAKARTA: Indonesia?s President Suharto has Washington over a barrel -- and he knows it. ?We can?t afford to simply pull the plug on him," says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst, "because if Indonesia fails, the ripple effect throughout Asia, and beyond, would hurt...
...year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks in its classrooms. Superintendent Anthony Amato predicts that laptop computers will be on most American students' desks within five years. "I'd put my reputation on it in a minute," he effuses. Since last year, Amato has fielded...