Word: affords
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...future generations will want to rediscover. But it is a solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie - and how many of those have lately been made in America? So don't worry if you're shut out of Spider-Man. There is an alternative - and one that will afford you the kind of agreeable pleasure that genre movies once routinely supplied and now only rarely...
...same time, she adds, "there's no chance of getting China unless the U.S. steps up." That leaves the world, well, stuck in a Chinese fingertrap. Because developing nations have emphasized that they can't afford to jeopardize the pace of economic growth for the sake of the environment, the only climate-change solutions they're likely to accept will be ones that come cheap. Fortunately the IPCC says that's possible; the new report concludes that the cost of stabilizing global carbon emissions by 2030 could require as little as one-tenth of a percentage point per year...
...line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit the states of the former Soviet bloc into its membership. But Russia at the time was on its knees economically. It could not afford to fall out with the U.S. and its allies...
...that made implementing drastic changes that much easier.TOUGH CHOICES Along with vision, however, came a host of challenges that made implementing these changes that much harder. “Drew had to consider what fit or didn’t fit, what she could or couldn’t afford,” Dunn notes. “[And] none of the changes were off the wall or impulsive.”The changes, however, were profound. The primary problem that Faust had to deal with was an overburdened budget and a too-large staff. “Drew...
...fact this whole thing has made me more convicted that people should take the risks that they can afford to take to protest that which they think is morally reprehensible in this world,” she said...