Word: affords
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...plan to eat my emotions. The Asian food stalls offer me free chicken samples and I indulge, coating my stomach in MSG.Then I shop out my frustration. I float from store to store where I try on tight-fitting jeans and pick up garments I can’t afford. Eventually I make the mistake of going in to Abercrombie. The nearly naked models with their chiseled bodies emasculate me and I can hear my self-esteem falling. The price tags at J. Crew and Banana remind me I still have to buy things on sale. The bumpy ride back...
...course's graduates, meanwhile, are trying to fit matrimony into their life plans. "Marriage is a chance you have to take," says Sims. His partner, Bryant, still isn't sure. She and Sims have been hunting for months for a home they can afford outside the projects. "I do want to be married someday," she says. "And Lamont would make a good husband. I just don't think we're there...
...believes Sunnis should hold their noses and dive in. He is advising his flock to vote. "The important thing is for us to have a say in the future of Iraq," he says. "If we stay out of the elections, then we lose our voice. We can't afford that...
...years,” Sweet said. “This one girl was playing, and the blade of her stick was completely broken—there was a hole. And she played a whole game with it, like that’s her stick. She couldn’t afford anything else...
...imposing neoclassical fresco of the Hall of the Horaces looked down on the heads of government as one by one they stepped up to sign the constitution. The constitutional treaty is a lengthy compilation of all previous EU agreements, meant to clarify the division of competences as well as afford the EU new powers, and is widely considered the ultimate political compromise. Only a relatively weak document could make all states content, and its final form required over a year of negotiations...