Word: affords
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...techniques - embroidery, appliqu?, draping - with New-Age ideas. His client needs a sense of humor to wear his dress with printed pearls, his feather harness top or his short crocodile jacket, with tail. Indeed, humor might be the salvation of haute couture. After all, if you can afford a $20,000 dress these days, you should be laughing. Yohji Yamamoto showed his ready-to-wear collection during haute- couture week, months ahead of October's pr?t-a-porter shows. It's the latest in a string of avant-garde moves from a very avant-garde designer. He also announced...
...moment, New York doesn’t seem to worry that much about its nakedness—perhaps it can’t afford to in a way that would really be worth the anguish. The only stitch of clothing I see are the two men in camouflage fatigues who are walking in the opposite direction. Maybe they aren’t even real soldiers, or maybe they’re off duty—they seem very relaxed. One of them warns me to look out—I have wandered into the bike lane, and a Bianchi...
...While new drug cocktails make living with HIV more of a reality than ever before, millions continue to die, either because they cannot afford that life-extending cocktail, or because they've developed a new form of AIDS that's resistant or non-responsive to existing drugs. Many others will die because they don't believe AIDS is still a deadly disease: recent breakthroughs in treatment means the gut-wrenching fear of the late 1980s has evaporated - and with it, obsessive (and lifesaving) condom use. Today, young people in many developed countries, including the U.S. have seen people live symptom...
...more effective when used in combination with an existing regimen. Does this rule out T-20 for anyone who cannot afford a very expensive cocktail? "Not necessarily," says Dr. Kennedy. "They will start testing the drug on its own." But for now, T-20 serves little purpose for those in countries without access to costly AIDS drugs...
...Alliance equivalent already in the field able to take and hold territory from Saddam's forces. And the Taliban had no access to chemical or biological weapons. Whatever their differences over tactics, Washington's factions agree that once the U.S. commits to battle in Iraq, it simply can't afford to fail. That means the U.S. would likely have to commit up to 250,000 U.S. troops to the fight...