Word: affords
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Efforts to dole out more money haven't gone far. Last fall G.O.P. state representative Jimmy Stewart proposed a further $100-per-family raise in monthly aid. "We can afford this," he says. His colleagues have not yet scheduled hearings on his bill...
...hired professionals? It helps to understand that he is a man of epic contradictions. His family practically invented the auto industry, not to mention blue-collar consumerism. Brilliant, cantankerous Henry Ford made the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and paid workers enough so they could afford to buy one. That makes great-grandson Bill industrial royalty: he comes from a competitive, dynastic clan that cannot be separated from the nameplate on your Mustang. But he also has a complex, even squishy side; he's a passionate environmentalist who has studied Buddhist philosophy and thinks a lot about...
...appeared to be living proof of his boast. Over the past five fiscal years, Livedoor has acquired 27 companies, increasing revenue 22-fold to nearly $800 million. He has also been an aggressive financial democrat, constantly splitting his stock so that younger and less well-off Japanese can afford to become shareholders. If you had bought a single share of Livedoor in early 2003, it would have multipied into 10,000 shares today. The stock became hugely popular-even schoolchildren became stockholders. And since Horie retained a 17% stake in his company, the cash influx from the horde...
...absolutely necessary.First, liberals like to point out that only one Congressman who supported the Iraq war has a son enlisted in the military (a few others have children who are officers). If Congressional hawks are getting their families out of military service because they can afford to provide their children with better options, then the war in Iraq starts to look not just ill-advised but downright unjust. Suddenly Bush and his cronies start to look like the pampered pansies, while anti-war liberals can claim to be representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people...
...said Lauren P. S. Epstein ’07, referring to the work that had gone on previous to this exam period. “The concern was more that this was happening when we were all in our rooms writing our papers and simply could not afford to be distracted at that level...