Word: affords
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...Private investment accounts are a terrific idea, if you can afford them and they are carefully regulated. They will provide a higher rate of return than the current system, if the economy doesn't tank (in which case the current system may not make it either). And there are social intangibles that come with ownership. When I visited Chile to look at its privatized Social Security system 10 years ago, I met with formerly radical factory workers who proudly brandished their retirement-fund statements and told me they were now paying as much attention to the business page...
...Sniffs Stonecipher: "The A380 is a great engineering success - but so was the Concorde. The A380 could be a market disaster." John Leahy, Airbus' American-born top salesman, dismisses that prospect, saying airlines want both options - the A380 and the A350. No matter who's right, Boeing can't afford to make the wrong call. Ulrich Horstmann, an aerospace analyst for Bayerische Landesbank in Munich, says: "If Boeing doesn't make the 7E7 a success, it has no more trumps in its hand." Don't think Stonecipher isn't aware of that. He has overseen a revamping of Boeing...
Private investment accounts are a terrific idea, if you can afford them and they are carefully regulated. They will provide a higher rate of return than the current system, if the economy doesn't tank (in which case the current system may not make it either). And there are social intangibles that come with ownership. When I visited Chile to look at its privatized Social Security system 10 years ago, I met with formerly radical factory workers who proudly brandished their retirement-fund statements and told me they were now paying as much attention to the business page...
...Neither the dePlume Organization nor I can afford to defend a suit against Apple, and have few connections in California,” he wrote...
Suburban families can afford to pay for good educational opportunities, while parents in enclaves have to depend on ethnic networks, she said...