Word: affords
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Most people going to Harvard are paying a fairly sizeable bill at that point, so they can afford to spend another hundred dollars to do something a little more exotic. I’ve set up this group that are doing Vienna, Prague and Munich...
...know what it takes to forgo dessert or resist the urge to buy that bauble you can't afford: self-control. That sounds simple, but self-control can be a slippery thing. A study in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research sheds some light on why. According to the study's author, Roy Baumeister, a social psychologist at Florida State University, self-control is neither an acquired skill nor a logical cognitive process. Rather, he says, it's an exhaustible resource that operates like a well: it is emptied with use and refilled with rest. To test...
...gives it instant credibility with Latinos. Frias says when the company first surveyed potential customers in California, 70% recognized the Gigante name. Besides a wider and more authentic selection of Mexican products, Gigante also boasts prices that are on average 15% lower than those at traditional supermarkets. Gigante can afford to charge less, thanks in part to lower labor costs. Under its union contract signed last year, check-out clerks make $10.29 an hour, compared with $17.90 at major California chains; Gigante's meatcutters make $7 an hour less than their counterparts at other union markets. These concessions from...
Typically, it's the small retailers that pay portals based only on sales, because it's all they can afford. Yahoo charges more than 14,000 mom-and-pop shops just $49.95 a month to host their Web stores and include their merchandise in a searchable database--then takes a 3.5% cut of every sale. Few small merchants have the budgets to pay for display ads and top placement in search returns. And that's what it takes to get noticed next to several dozen heavyweight "featured stores" (Nordstrom, Godiva, Gap et al.) that are paying the bigger bucks...
You’ve racked up an ABP bill to rival your Coop bill and you just can’t afford one more sandwich...