Word: affords
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...printed on if it cannot be enforced. While Kabul itself is relatively stable, outside of the city individual tribal leaders wield enormous power, and until they are disarmed it will impossible to form a national government that can claim responsibility for the entire country. The international community cannot afford a failed state in Afghanistan and must work quickly to increase Kabul’s control of its surrounding territory...
...more durable commitment to the community of riders by keeping fares low, steering improvement efforts toward the neighborhoods that truly need them and allowing an independent audit of its accounts. As it stands, the fare hike remains a suggestion of a regressive transportation policy in which those who can afford a car are valued above those who ride the buses and subways...
Furthermore, this new system might allow HPPS to finally allow for some coursebook returns. HPPS can surely not afford to guarantee full refunds and unlimited returns—imagine if a class turned sour in the second meeting and 100 people wanted to return their coursepacks for which the printing and publication-rights costs were already paid. But since the online pre-ordering system will alert HPPS if students still want a particular coursebook, a return-on-demand system would be feasible. Students could easily use the online system to cancel their coursepack orders and HPPS could save the time?...
...When the flames neared the dwelling of Sonya Graoso, a 44-year-old housewife, she tried to flee with her daughter and two-year-old twin granddaughters. A neighbor offered her a boat to get away?for a fee she couldn't afford. Another neighbor with a boat took pity on the family, but thieves stopped them and demanded loot. "My daughter had bought new shoes?the only pair she owns?last Christmas," says Graoso. "They were snatched from...
...conduct, and even our laws, do not apply to them as they do to the rest of us. During Major League Baseball's investigation of Rose in 1989, one of his lawyers argued to me that "Pete Rose is a national institution. He doesn't think baseball can afford to take...