Word: affords
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After Trading Up, I talked to a lot of people about new luxury, and consumers?mostly women?would say, "You only got half the story. You got the trade-up part, but in order for me to afford to trade up, I cut corners." They would tell me stories about particular treasures that they had found. So the book became a demonstration of the fact that the middle-class consumer is actually saving money...
...secrets are for people who can afford them, and Cruise is not the only figure who has had to learn that. Wednesday evening on CBS, President George W. Bush talked with Couric and the world about his secret baby, the CIA's clandestine prisons. (Suri, naturally, got higher ratings.) Compelled by the Supreme Court to find a legal way of trying detainees and by dismal polls and midterms to argue for his antiterrorism strategy, the President whose Administration once defied the press to claim the prisons existed now gamely said they had--and here are the baby pictures, Katie...
...charge here. Today they are not the government. Today they are on the run and hiding and they come out from their hiding and try to hurt us when they can manage it. They hate us all-they hate our way of life and they like when they can afford it to inflict as much damage as they possibly can. So we will have this for a long time. But what are we comparing the situation to? Are we forgetting that they were the government of Afghanistan? Are we forgetting that they were in charge of this country, that they...
...train car, under the latticed arches designed by Gustave Eiffel, Ghorwane, a local band that have been fusing African rhythms with politics since the early '80s, are shaking up a cocktail of sweaty fans. It's buzzing, but it's not full - not everybody in Mozambique's capital can afford the $6 door fee at Sr Mfumo Jazz Bar (formerly Chez Rangel). Most people still get by on just $40 a month. It's been 10 years since I first visited Maputo. Back then, just three years after the end of a civil war that left the country littered with...
...crises over Iraq and Iran. He expressed fears of civil war in Iraq "if it continues to spiral," and while voicing concern about Iran's influence, he cautioned against the thought of American military action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. "I don't think the Middle East could afford another war," he said. "A war with Iran would sort of open a Pandora's Box and one that I don't think the Middle East would recover from...