Word: affords
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...Damn it," he cried, slamming down his pencil, "I can't listen to all this." In the midst of the imbroglio sat one remarkably serene and smiling figure: David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the straight-shooting point man of the Reagan Revolution. He could afford to be calm. After more than four years of sound and fury, he had just announced his departure from Government for the far more lucrative realm of Wall Street...
They come to better themselves. By doing so they also stimulate our economy, diversify our cuisine, enrich our language and culture, bring innovative ideas and strengthen our gene pool. Some say we cannot afford to have more immigrants. I wonder if we can afford not to. Guy Langsdale Miami...
...Isabelle Kronawitter, an economist at HVB Bank in Munich, calculates that if the court upholds the decision and makes it retroactive, it could cost the German government as much as j30 billion. That's a whopping 1.5% of Germany's gross domestic product, an amount that Berlin can ill afford at a time of squeezed budgets. At the Luxembourg hearing, the German government argued that the court should take into account the potentially huge budgetary repercussions. But Poiares Maduro explicitly...
Living wage, the premise that a full-time worker should be able to afford housing and basic needs, is defined for the city of St. Louis as $9.79 an hour with full benefits. According to the protestors, groundskeepers and maintenance workers are currently paid about $8 per hour...
...decided that Peter and I should go to boarding school, as was common at the time for families who could afford it. Peter was enrolled at the Fay School in Massachusetts and I at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. Starting my freshman year at Emma Willard, being very thin assumed dominance over good hair in the hierarchy of what really mattered...