Word: affords
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Safety experts are also looking closely at airports. Pilots consider U.S. airports to be safe overall because local authorities have the money to install proper lighting and landing and navigation aids. Problems are greater at fields in the less developed nations of Africa and South America, which often cannot afford vital equipment. Nonetheless, flyers have raised objections to practices at some U.S. locations. The Airline Pilots Association has asked Los Angeles officials to stop allowing planes to take off with the wind, a practice the group considers dangerous. It argues that the procedure may make it harder for the aircraft...
...said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery boy . . . 'It could get messy; people with a history of bad decisions are going to be axed very smartly.' Dicky smiled. He could afford to smile; Dicky had never made a decision in his life. Whenever something decisive was about to happen, Dicky went home with a headache...
...Texas sesquicentennial cattle drive, part of the state's celebration of 150 years of independence from Mexico, bogged down this month after one day on the road because liability insurance covering the 49 longhorn steers that were involved was doubled and the organizers could not afford it. The drive resumed last Friday with only 28 steers, whose owners agreed to pay for the insurance themselves...
...cost of product liability. It has driven the price of a new airplane out of the reach of the average person who wants to buy one." Some commercial fishing boats that once sailed out of Pacific Northwestern ports have been put into dry dock because owners could not afford liability-insurance premiums that commonly have doubled in the past year...
Billy Baxter has been a winner all his life, but he works at it. A professional gambler and a three-time World Series of Poker champion, Baxter earns enough to afford a $1 million home in Las Vegas. But last week Baxter claimed his sweetest pot of all in a Reno courtroom: a $178,000 refund from the Internal Revenue Service...