Word: affords
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...call Carla Harris a lot of things but ‘ain’t tough’ ain’t one of them. As a black woman on Wall Street, you can’t afford to have people think you aren’t tough,” Harris said...
...routinely reminded of one another’s financial circumstances. There is always a contingent of first-years who regularly desert Annenberg in favor of more expensive dining offerings—the same fortunate few who every spring pick the priciest vacation destinations. For those students who cannot afford Harvard’s loftier of lifestyles, who suffer through dining hall fare day after day—for whom spring break means a bus ride home, instead of a flight to Bermuda—by the time senior year arrives, they learn that the barriers of economic class extend...
Like many other Iraqis, al-Jalili routinely veers from optimism to apprehension. He drives to work in a new government car but nervously checks for potential gunmen in any vehicle that draws alongside him. He can afford to call his uncle in Texas on his new cell phone, but when a stranger at a cigarette stand cast an odd glance at him recently, al-Jalili dialed several friends to escort him home. "The roofs of Mosul are covered with new satellite dishes, and the streets are littered with Pepsi cans and banana skins," says al-Jalili, ticking off some...
...hike would not be a negligible burden for the office—more like on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Before the referendum goes up for a vote, the council must do the necessary leg-work to get a guarantee that students who cannot afford this increase will not be forced...
...Harvard can afford to pay $107.5 million to six fund managers this year, Harvard can find the funds to make college education more affordable in fundamental ways, benefiting a far larger proportion of students,” they wrote...