Word: affords
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...Kong domestic market," says John Chong, CEO of Media Asia, a leading production house and a backer of Peter Chan's historical movie The Warlords - the big winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April. In fact, no filmmaker aiming for a significantly larger audience or budget can afford to ignore China, whether they're making epics or otherwise. This year's family hit CJ7, a sci-fi flick from hometown actor-director Stephen Chow, scored with expensive computer animation - and a ton of cross-border finance...
...find that your electricity isn't working. Try deciding whether to pay your rent this month to forestall eviction or fill your tank with gas so you don't get fired from your job. How dare we think of bailing out greedy people who bought McMansions they couldn't afford, when seniors and disabled people are losing basic necessities through no fault of their own? Marybeth Moore, HOLLYWOOD...
...them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri, do you think you'd even notice an increase?" The cost of the dish here is four times what you'd pay out on the street. For these workers, who cannot afford to buy a thing in this mall, not even a bottle of water, everything seems surreally expensive; the surreal getting inflated by 12% isn't an event...
...Turkey can ill afford a repeat of the court saga or continued and potentially explosive polarization; it would seem that Erdogan has little other option. Building broad social consensus may also be his only real guarantee against the secularist old guard, who have stepped in with military coups and judicial decisions against elected governments in the past, and may yet do so again. So while today's verdict was a victory for the government, it was also a warning...
...best use of the aid - the most long-term, creditworthy bets - but also those who were genuinely victimized by predatory or unscrupulous lenders as opposed to those who simply made bad financial decisions (especially property flippers) and took on more housing debt than they and their salaries could ever afford. "We want folks to be able to hold on to the American dream," says Daniel Rosemond, the Miami Gardens director of community development. "But at the same time, in a low-wage region like South Florida, we have to be realistic about people who, frankly, aren't ready...