Word: affords
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...most expensive, best-looking phones. Ron Garriques, who runs Motorola's mobile devices unit, says that even though sales of the Razr in India are small, its image is attracting people to Motorola's other products. "In India only about 1% of the population has the ability to afford the Razr," Garriques says. "The real pull for us is the other 1.1 billion people who can't afford a Razr." To reach them, Motorola is working with local carriers to take their phones into rural areas and in some cases help arrange financing. "We have vans, buses, jeeps, carts," Garriques...
...nuclear weapons and use them is not small.” But Heymann warned against this attitude. “It is a fundamental mistake to think that the solution is to throw civil liberties out,” he said. “We can’t afford to be knee-jerk about national security...
...fusion of northern technique and southern hardware seems to be paying dividends. Somali pirates now demand, and often receive, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, according to the Piracy Reporting Center's Choong. With that sort of money the pirates "can afford to buy themselves some pretty nice boats," says Choong, and hence extend the range of their seizures...
...from Charlotte, N.C., to the Crescent City three years ago in search of better returns. Can he guarantee it? "Will you promise to me there will be no more hurricanes between now and then?" he asks. "Will you promise me that all our people will come back that can afford tickets and can buy tickets? You know, I don't have the tea leaves to determine all this. Our plan is to come back, period." Just by making it to tip-off, the Hornets took a big first step...
...years of their existence. And, as is often the case in higher education, where there’s alumni loyalty, there’s alumni giving.It’s because of a trust that the organizers of Eliot House’s annual spring Fête can afford to splurge on champagne fountains and ice sculptures. We Winthropians, meanwhile, content ourselves with 40s in Gore Courtyard during our own spring formal. (Not to say that there’s anything wrong with our distinctly more down-to-earth brand of revelry, but ice sculptures would be pretty cool...