Word: affords
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Lamie says such procedures afford current leadership a measure of flexibility in choosing its successors. They also provide some guarantee that future leadership meets certain criteria, meritocratic or otherwise...
...From the standpoint of emphasizing retention, we absolutely must get serious football players,” Murphy said earlier this month. “We just can’t afford to lose a kid once they matriculate to Harvard...
...everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
Given that Penn State featured National Player of the Year Christie Welsh in front, Harvard couldn’t afford to let that happen too often, and as lapses began in the second half, freshman goalkeeper Katie Shields made several acrobatic saves to keep Penn State off the scoreboard...
...offer, and cite his well-documented history of denial, deception, obstruction and defiance as reason to see it as nothing more than a fake-out. That may very well be true. Still, having demanded that Iraq accept immediate, unconditional and unfettered arms inspections, the Bush Administration can't easily afford to flatly reject a "yes" answer from Baghdad if it hopes to win international consent for a military campaign...