Word: affords
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...need to make men laugh to impress them. (Either that, Chris, or they just don't try that hard in front of you.) His second--in a smaller nutshell--is that they make babies. "Those who risk agony and death to bring children into this fiasco simply can't afford to be too frivolous," he wrote. "They are innately aware of a higher calling that is no laughing matter...
...Central America insist with good reason that nothing close to $30 million in Iranian arms profits was spent on military supplies or equipment. "The whole operation was held together with string," says William Wehrell, a pilot who flew supplies to the contras this year. "We couldn't even afford a proper navigational system to make sure that we dropped our loads to the right people...
...officials in Caracas, especially younger ones, wince when you equate the two. They insist their democratically elected commandante is hardly poised to snuff out free speech and free enterprise or stoke armed revolution abroad. Chavez may control the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, but they believe he can't afford to squander a more valuable commodity - his democratic legitimacy, something Castro never had and which gives Chavez the ability to blunt U.S. efforts to cast him as the Caribbean's new communist caudillo...
...Mayor Vercamer also notes that some of the new construction is intended for middle and upper-middle class families being enticed to the area by subsidized rents that current Hauts Champs residents could never afford. By luring employed, productive, and socially-integrated families to the area, Vercamer is betting that businesses hoping to serve their needs will follow, meaning more investment, jobs, and hope...
...enough Republicans vote against the President's plan in the Senate, it will make G.O.P. members in the House more comfortable about breaking with Bush. Democratic strategists know that, given the electoral math of the 2008 election, the political climate is dire for Senate Republicans. G.O.P. Senators can little afford to support their President on a policy opposed by more than 60% in most polls. A year from now, Senate Republicans will have to defend 21 of the seats they currently hold, compared with only 12 for the Democrats. That helps explain why some of the strongest critics...