Word: affords
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...exporter with countries like Canada and Thailand. Competition from this territory has contributed to the loss of more than 100,000 U.S. apparel jobs over the past two years. And in 1998 the U.S. taxpayer will lose $250 million in revenue forgone on tariffs. How much longer can we afford to let the N.M.I. abuse its territorial status? JOHN M. SPRATT JR., U.S. Representative 5th District, South Carolina Washington...
...Intensity has been a concern as far as I can remember," Sproule said. "We cannot afford lapses and win games...
...great deal about the ostentatiousness of the Russian mafia, but in the past year or two the number of participants in the Muscovite consumer revolution has extended beyond this exclusive group of leather jacket-wearing, cell phone-toting, Mercedes-driving mafiosos. Though there are still many Russians who cannot afford these goods, many Russians besides mafiosos are joining the consumer class. The term Noviye Russkie, or New Russian, which used to apply only to the small crop of crooked Russian multi-millionaires, is becoming harder to define. Soon it may refer to a large comfortable middle class of Russians...
Duke University Financial Aid Director James A. Belvin Jr. said his school, with a far smaller endowment than Princeton, Yale, Stanford or Harvard, could not easily afford similar changes...
McLaughlin will join the team for a preseason trip to Mexico over spring break, which will afford him his best opportunity to make a positive impression on Rongen. Unfortunately, he will have to do it in exhibition matches against Mexican First Division powers Guadalajara Chivas and Atlas. Rongen's expectations are realistic, though...