Word: affords
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...fairy-tale lifestyle of the European aristocracy has been moving slowly toward extinction for several generations now. Many of the nobility's historic homes survive, but they're under threat too. Governments don't have the funds to maintain all of them, and few buyers can afford to maintain them as private homes. So what's happening to these stately piles? Many find new lives as luxury hotels. ITALY As early as 1822, Italian entrepreneur Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the central apartments of the crumbling Venetian Palazzo Dandolo, the Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...than that on Saturday night at Thompson Arena—the home ice of the nation’s No. 2 Dartmouth. Locked in a dogfight with the Big Green atop the ECAC standings and clinging to a projected position in the NCAA Frozen Eight, the Crimson could scarcely afford defeat...
...Works Wage earners must contribute 10% of their pay to one of several government-approved private funds. Those accounts replaced the old state pensions, but the government still pays a base sum to poor retirees. At first, employers were required to raise wages so workers could afford...
...Near Italian-themed Pujiang, a group of farmers eyeing the airy granite-and-glass concoction that will serve as the new town hall, exhibition center and restaurant arcade grumbles that there's no way they will be able to afford to live in their own hometown. But inside the building, Yue Xing, president of Shanghai Highpower-Oct Investment Ltd., one of the developers of Pujiang New Town, defends his urban vision: "We are not judging [future residents] by how much money they have but by their commitment to enjoying a better quality of life. We have to think about...
...industry to support them as organic communities. The world is littered with failed cities, where urban planners overlooked residents' needs and incomes. In the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, for instance, the sprawling urban center was designed for easy car transport but now teems with slum dwellers too poor to afford even bicycles. As Shanghai tries to address the needs of its own multiplying population, some are worried that the same mistakes could be replicated in the city's planned satellite towns. "Each of these [foreign-themed] towns wants to follow the model of quick development," says Zheng Shilong, a professor...