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Big Tech is able to attract, afford and hire these people.
And so we end up with vain decisions, and we can't even afford our mortgage.
We can't afford to eat anything except beans; that is, our housing has become a commodity.
We cannot afford to lose it.
I wrote about Maricela Guzman, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, who joined the military so she could afford college.
We cannot afford to pay so much for admission.
And that means that the online criminals can actually afford to invest into their attacks.
You look at the cost-benefit analysis, and my dream is to take this issue, not just from the compassion argument, but to the finance ministers of the world, and say we cannot afford to not invest in the access to adequate, affordable nutrition for all of humanity.
And that question is whether in this modern, globalized world we can really afford to have all these different languages.
Where we've come from, what kind of people we are, and it needs to, by doing that, it needs to afford us a glimpse to where we're going in order to allow us to dwell in a hopeful present.
A wise man once said, "Faith is a risk, but it's a risk that I cannot afford not to take."
I would suggest that partnerships with faith-based organizations are a risk, but one that all stakeholders that are committed to social impact in Africa cannot afford not to take.
And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment.
My mother dropped out of school quite early, because her mother, my grandmother, could not afford her education.
And he slashed so many budgets that people said they couldn't afford paintings anymore, and they needed to have their portrait "a la silhouette."
We cannot afford to underestimate this problem.
It would take me a month to shoot a four-minute roll of film, because that's all I could afford.
Perhaps by then we will be able to afford the luxury of just sitting in an audience with no other purpose than to witness the human form in motion.
And actually, it was responding to clients that I had who didn't have very much money, so they couldn't afford very much.
I don't think we can afford too much of such ethical choices.
So here I made a distribution builder where instead of showing numerical outcomes, I show people what those outcomes will get you, in particular apartments that you can afford if you're retiring on 3,000, 2,500, 2,000 dollars per month and so on.
And as you get to the very bottom, you're faced with the unfortunate reality that if you don't save anything for retirement, you won't be able to afford any housing at all.
And maybe I've been around long enough that I can afford to give away some of my false prestige to be able to do that.
In fact, I'm one of the majority of my generation who can't afford a home.
The first is that people can't get access to these technologies because they can't afford them.
It's kind of a recent topic, at least in the U.S. A lot of people buy the biggest house they can afford, and actually slightly bigger than that.
I want, really, to think about the fact that saving four times more is a huge difference in terms of the lifestyle that people will be able to afford.
Whereas with saving three percent, people might have to add nice sneakers so they can walk, because they won't be able to afford anything else, when they save 14 percent they might be able to maybe have nice dress shoes to walk to the car to drive.
We've had economic analysis pointing out that, not only can we afford it, it's cheaper to act early.
Dirt poor, living in the home with my parents, I couldn't afford to.
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