Word: affords
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...hear if it will be accepted. "It's like going to a restaurant and ordering your food, and then waiting three months until it comes out," says Delao. "Now interest rates have gone up. By the time they approve my deal, I probably won't be able to afford...
...economic systems—and that he has announced that “he is a friend of the United States.” “Before, French leaders tried to show their independence from the United States,” Lamassoure said. “We cannot afford to maintain differences in opinion between both sides of the Atlantic.” He termed the lack of communication between Europe and the United States on the issue of nuclear proliferation “literally insane.” Lamassoure added that European powers are increasingly willing to help...
...much as $1 million. Even a bond trader just out of business school could see his or her bank account enriched by as much as $170,000 this Christmas. "The firms have had an extremely difficult year," says Joan Zimmerman, a Wall Street career coach. "But they can't afford to lose talent either...
...rupee and depleted forex reserves. A failure to increase the capacity of electricity production now plunges Pakistan's main cities into darkness for up to ten hours a day, with longer periods in rural areas. Industrial output has shrunk with employers now laying off employees they can no longer afford to keep. And Pakistanis have begun to take their anger to the streets. In parts of Lahore on Monday, scores of protesters laid siege to the local office of the electricity utility, ransacking the building and burning their electricity bills. The mounting economic crisis is likely to fuel social unrest...
...Church said that even this comparative bargain is too much to ask of an average person. Instead, he envisions a future in which an individual can easily afford to use information from his or her genetic code to create a personal risk profile for common diseases...