Word: affords
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...homes. The machines are expensive: $3,500 for the home unit and $9,250 for the gym model, so some of the private owners are people with names like Madonna. (Soloflex has a simpler version of the Power Plate that sells for just $395.) But if you can't afford the cost-or the space-for such a bulky bit of hardware, look for the units to show up at a gym near you soon...
...Macquarie. Krogner got control of Esprit's American business when Ying bought the U.S. trademark in 2002. (The company is now publicly traded; Ying owned 15.8% as of the end of 2005.) As part of the acquisition, Krogner forced a shutdown of Esprit's existing American operations to afford a fresh start...
...unspoken presumption that foreign policy was outside the purview of the people, that it needed to be in the hands of specialists and policy mandarins and that ordinary Americans were just not equipped to make decisions about such highfalutin matters. That is a mistake we can no longer afford. American citizens pay taxes to support our policies overseas and send their sons and daughters to fight for the nation, which means they should be damn well able to pass judgment on what our foreign policy ought to be. Participatory democracy doesn't stop at the water's edge...
...Bank, the U.N. and the Marshall Plan. The strategy of containment was accepted by both parties. I believe that our circumstances today offer a similar opportunity and we must consider policies and actions on a comparable scale, with that same spirit of bipartisanship. This is an opportunity we cannot afford to let slip. We must be as creative today as our predecessors were a half-century ago. Realism and idealism are two strains not only in our foreign policy but also in our character as a people. We function best when those two values work hand in hand...
...barkeep (Elizabeth Banks) is - the hesitant romance of these two recently hurt people is very nicely managed in the film. But Papale also knows what his fans can only dimly imagine, which is just how big and fast and hard-hitting professional football players are, and he can't afford distractions. All he has to throw at the big guys - who do not exactly welcome him to their locker room - is heart: the ability to recover from their hits and keep on charging down the field. He spends a lot of time stoically awaiting "The Turk," the assistant coach...