Word: affords
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...whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food on the table. These same questions do not confront the office workers and executives who work in these same buildings during the day and often earn six-figure salaries. These people are able to afford doctors and medicine to cure the slightest sneeze. The policies of cleaning companies, and the eagerness of institutions and buildings to subcontract work at the lowest cost, has helped to create a hierarchy of health, in which the lives of some are declared much more valuable than those of others...
...says that in her hometown north of Pyongyang (she prefers we don't name it) the price of grain in the black market has risen, but people can't afford to buy it: Although salaries have been raised, the government has only actually paid them once since July. People need to supplement meager government rations with rice bought at exorbitant prices on the black market. "This was a reform for the rich," says Lee. "Things are worse than before...
...matter how the game plays out, tomorrow’s contest promises to be a physical battle between fierce crosstown rivals. It will afford the Crimson a chance to erase the bad memories of the Lehigh loss and prove that they indeed belong among the elite teams in Division...
...void and giving Washington an irrefutable case to insist on tough verification procedures in any future agreements, the North Koreans may actually have done the Bush Administration a favor. After all, Pyongyang still desperately needs aid, trade and investment from the U.S. and its allies, and it can't afford to be isolated - hence Condoleezza Rice's confidence in the power of international pressure over North Korea. The Dear Leader needs a new agreement, first and foremost with Washington. And in light of the latest revelations, such an agreement would certainly incorporate some of the tough policing the Bush Administration...
...wells up to 100 meters deep to reach the water table. The combined effect of drought, reduced water from the hills and the cannabis cultivators' new boreholes is catastrophic, says Bertrand Brequeville of French aid group Action Contre la Faim. "It's only the rich drug producers who can afford the pumps to irrigate the land. They pump all day, and all the wells in the villages around them...