Word: affords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief concern, as it relates to the battle over ITT, is that the structure seems to generate so much potential tax and other savings that Starwood can afford to outbid all comers. When Sternlicht was snapping up smaller companies, heavyweights like Bollenbach took note but didn't fuss. Now that Sternlicht is going after bigger quarry, he's on Bollenbach's radar, and the fuss has just begun. The Hilton boss has been lobbying against the paired-share structure. By opting to go after a big name like ITT, Sternlicht has created a personal Catch-22. If the scrutiny...
...question, says Mashberg, who's grown so leery himself that he shunned a TIME photographer last week. For starters, no reporter can afford to burn his sources. Secondly, as per his sources, he didn't even inform his editors of his little adventure until it was over, and their only question was, "When can we get it into the paper...
...their careers, and chose not to. Similarly, opera stars who sang pop music were invariably condemned for pandering to the proles (Ezio Pinza starred in South Pacific, but only after he retired from the Metropolitan Opera). And according to conventional wisdom, niceness was a luxury ambitious sopranos couldn't afford, moving, as they do, in a viciously competitive environment controlled almost entirely by male conductors, directors and managers...
...pitcher after dominating the league last season with a 17-8 record and 1.90 ERA. The award can only help the Expos, now little more than a Major League farm team for clubs with deeper pockets, deal Martinez to a team such as the Yankees that can afford to pay Cy Young winners to pitch for them...
When he was 13, Barry Manilow got a new stepfather, an Irish-American truck driver who brought with him a stack of Broadway albums. The Brooklyn teenager listened over and over again to musicals like The King and I and Kismet, and since he couldn't afford a Broadway ticket, he dreamed up his own narratives to go with the songs. Says Manilow: "I think my story was better than the Fiddler on the Roof I eventually...