Word: affords
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...been founded by Forrest L. Wood, a pine-tree- tall Arkansan in a Stetson who is pretty much the Paul Bunyan of bass fishing. Ranger, along with other fishing-industry firms, had for years sponsored fishing tournaments, but the payouts had been small because the companies couldn't afford big prizes...
...closure of numerous factories. Factory closures led to layoffs, and layoffs dealt devastating blows to rural economies, many of which have such low education levels and wages that they fail to draw in new, well-paying businesses. Unemployment payments are only a temporary respite for those who cannot afford to move to where the jobs have gone. Farming, once the backbone of the American economy and the typical country job, has become too expensive for many families. No longer a profitable venture, many are forced to sell out to agribusinesses or auction away land that may have been...
...talks going smoothly; if they fail or encounter unexpected resistance, nationalists will gain at his expense prior to elections in 2007. A new nationalist government would be less friendly to Europe. And many believe that turning Turkey away would send a dangerous signal to the Islamic world. "We cannot afford to get this wrong," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said last month. The alternative of finding ways to bridge West and East "is too terrible to contemplate." But there are real concerns in Western Europe over the wisdom of welcoming into the E.U. a mostly Muslim nation of 70 million...
...fence me in," the cowboy sings, forgetting to add that without a healthy horse or a vehicle that he can afford to drive, he may as well be stranded on the prairie dying of thirst and hunger. To live surrounded by unlimited space that one is incapable of moving through is the quintessential Western nightmare: homebound on the range. Driving back from Bozeman that afternoon, I crunched some more discouraging numbers. I'd always heard that freedom had a price. And soon I'd determined what it was in my case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30˘ a mile. This...
Aside from the purely financial aspects, athletic scholarships would open up a Pandora’s Box of equality issues, wouldn’t do much to lock a student into a sport—due to the prevalence of financial aid for those who can’t afford the hefty price tag—and it could foster and extend the perceived gap between student-athletes and student-cellists, student-governors, student-journalists, and the like...