Word: affords
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...Shrestha, however, is convinced that this time there is no way out even for the master escapologist. "I saw him and he saw me and I saw something click in him, some fear, some guilt," he says. "Everything in life comes full circle, even for criminals. We could never afford to travel abroad to get him. But, eventually, he came back...
...federal government has taken a heavy-handed approach by threatening law schools that do not cooperate with severe financial penalties—including the loss of Perkins loans, work-study funds and government research grants. Certainly, Harvard cannot afford to forgo millions of dollars in federal funding, but challenging the amendment would not result in a loss of funding. HLS could continue to allow military recruiters on campus, and retain its funding, while fighting the law in court. Barring the military from access to law school career service centers will not hamper the U.S. military’s ability...
Building additional Houses would give all the Houses a little more elbow room. My central hope is that this extra room would afford the College the opportunity to offer more abundant and attractive classroom space in the Houses, thereby integrating the intellectual and social lives of students in the ways in which the Houses were always intended. I have taught courses in the musty and windowless basements of Eliot and Dunster, and infelicitous as those spaces were, those experiences nonetheless led me to see that the vital intellectual life of the College is profoundly invigorated when teaching and the house...
...believe he can be beaten. I do wonder, however, why the poor and middle class vote for people like Bush. If the economy tanked tomorrow, Bush and his like could still afford a doctor, buy groceries and pay their electric bills, while most of the people who voted for him couldn't! It is the children of the poor and middle class who are cannon fodder for Bush's war. I think when this sinks in the country will vote him out. Pamala Anderson Bristol...
...General Assembly that he went to war in Iraq to defend the credibility of the international body. Saddam's weapons of mass destruction represented an intolerable threat to international security, Bush said, and if the UN was derelict in its duty to confront that threat, the U.S. could afford no such luxury. But the Bush administration's current efforts on the sidelines at the UN to persuade reluctant nations to send troops to relieve the burden carried by U.S. forces in Iraq has not been helped by the absence of evidence to support the centerpiece of Washington's case...