Word: affords
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...colleagues. Now our options were either to admit them into the surgical ward of the main hospital, where it would be five days before a surgeon would get around to stitching their wounds, or to move them to a private hospital for immediate stitching. Most Iraqis can't afford private hospitals, even though the rooms cost only $10 a day and specialists charge just $200 for serious surgery...
...dinosaur like General Motors. So let's say this: The man doesn't like sitting in the backseat, not in his personal life, certainly not as a businessman. Most mornings he drives himself to work in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, arriving at the office by 10:30. He can afford a chauffeur, of course, since he's worth an estimated $9 billion, a fortune built over a half-century of buying and selling assets from airlines to real estate, casinos, hotels, movie studios and automakers. Yet while many octogenarians may aspire to improve their golf score, Kerkorian keeps thinking...
...million Estimated cost of an international tribunal to try surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of some 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979 $1.5 million Amount the Cambodian government says it can afford to contribute...
...married, but their husbands aren't interested in taking cooking classes in Italy or visiting gardens in Savannah. "He likes the fact that she is safe, traveling with an escorted group and comes back happy because she has fulfilled her travel dream," says Golden. "I don't think women afford themselves the luxury of a midlife crisis because they have too much responsibility," she adds. "But there is internal pressure and the need to release themselves. It's self-serving for me to say that Gutsy Women Travel does that. But some of these women have never been on trips...
Unfortunately, Lithgow will have to miss it for the first time this year—he can’t really afford to skip out as the star of the new Broadway play, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” twice in a month. “It’s simply not done,” he sighs, with the overdone emphasis of an aging movie starlet, but still meaning every ounce of what he says...