Word: affords
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...appeal to the advertisers, though, with its time-honored, if a touch crass, pitch that it has the richest viewers of any broadcast network. It's true. If NBC were a neighborhood, you couldn't afford to live there. Its most platinum-plated drama, "The West Wing," has an average viewer household income of over $75,000 - $10,000 higher than the second-richest show, "Ed," also on NBC. (A fact that probably kept the incessantly quirky bowling-alley drama on the air despite its middling ratings - while other shows with more viewers but fewer SUV buyers got canceled.) Zucker...
...just six months ago. (It's SARAH JESSICA PARKER, in case you didn't recognize her.) But don't feel too bad. Parker tells W, "I wish that when someone said to me, 'Look how you lost weight after your pregnancy,' I could tell them, 'Yeah, but I can afford a yoga teacher to come to my house. I can afford child care so I can work out for an hour and a half.'" O.K., that does help. A little...
What if parents can afford luxuries? Is there anything wrong with giving them to their children...
...kids asked them, Why won't you buy me this consumer-electronic product or this piece of clothing? or, Why can't we go on vacation here? the parents just said simply, "It doesn't fit within our value system." They couldn't tell their kids they couldn't afford it because the kids know they can afford it. But [they can say] it's not O.K. or say, as this mother described to me, You have six very fine pairs of tennis shoes--you don't need 10 of them. It was their way of trying to establish some...
...Arabic expression goes - demonstrating a hunger for information that has also prompted a booming market for local and international newspapers. Baghdad may be the world's only city of more than 5 million inhabitants without a cellular phone system, but that will come soon - and every household that can afford them is sure to have several. For now, Iraqis desperate to tell family and friends that they are safe must plead with journalists for a few minutes on their satellite phones, or pay $10 a minute to the local entrepreneurs out to exploit their desire to communicate...