Word: affords
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...given Beijing's preoccupation with maintaining social harmony, that isn't likely to happen soon. "Most of China's population simply can't afford international prices," Kwan says. Chinese drivers, of course, agree. "They could have at least been more patient," says Huang Youfeng, waiting in line to fuel his sedan at a Beijing gas station Thursday. "Start the increase at 0.2 renminbi [2.5 cents] per liter - it would have been more acceptable." The irony is that Chinese demand has driven much of the nearly fourfold increase in oil prices since 2000. The country is now the world's second...
...have boomed, smaller markets like Vietnam have benefited from a spillover effect. "People say, 'Oh, Chinese art or Indian art is too expensive, so maybe we'll try looking in Vietnam,'" says Suzanne Lecht, the American director of the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. "Artists who could barely afford anything a few years ago can now drive luxury cars." But the rapid cash inflow has put commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling...
...perpetuity, doing so is unfeasible for several reasons. First, the Times will only pay its half of the cost for a limited time, and come 2008 it is raising the cost of its educational subscriptions by five cents. Consequently, the price will swell well beyond what the UC could afford without cutting significantly into the portion of its budget devoted to student groups. If the program is to be viable in the long term, then, it must be funded by the administration. This would bring Harvard in line with many of its peers; for instance, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Yale...
...economy. Both points are flawed. While it is important that developing countries are, in the future, subject to the same rigid emissions caps currently imposed upon developed nations, developed countries—the countries that historically have “caused” global warming—cannot afford to postpone action. If the U.S., a rich country with advanced green technology, does not make a commitment to reduce emissions, how can we ask developing countries with fewer resources to do the same? Further, reducing greenhouse gas emission will not harm the U.S. economy, at least for now. According...
...role in the fight against global warming, and I’m glad to see that our government is making alternative energy a priority. But developing green technologies—much less making them popularly available—takes time, which is a luxury we can’t afford. Clean energy technologies must play a role in the U.S.’s effort to go green—but their development should not pass as a substitute...