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We can't afford to ignore any group. The achievement gap plays a big role in being able to address the skills shortage.

We can't afford to have turnovers against Raleigh. They're a good team. We have to get off to a faster start than we have been.

We can't afford to have those service errors. In game three, we had six bad serves that turned into six points for the other team.

We can't afford to have nurses on the road all the time.

We can't afford to have any of our potential goal scorers out, especially him.

We can't afford to have another training camp now. We've just got to move forward and try to do the best we can the rest of the year.

We can't afford to go out and not compete for 32 minutes. It doesn't matter who's out on the court. We had a let-down in the third quarter, and we were in too big of a hole to pull ourselves out of in the fourth quarter.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

We can't afford to give away games by not executing and not knocking down our free throws.

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and use their hands a lot on defense, so we've got to take care of and put an emphasis on having ownership of the basketball.

We can't afford to get carried away but we are in a position where we need just need to draw,

We can't afford to drop our heads like we did out there and like we did against Ireland when things go against us.

We can't afford to do that. We play against too good of competition. I really think we were playing a little too passive. Going into the game, we have to attack more. We were playing not to lose, and we need to play to win.

We can't afford to do that against Mark Morris. We have to get better in our kicking game, too.

We can't afford to dedicate one person only to testing. Everyone must wear many hats.

We can't afford to compromise our system of government that has served the Canadian people so well since 1867.

We can't afford to bottleneck our traffic in case there's a natural disaster, ... Just for the flow of traffic, I'd like to see them build the new bridge on the east side.

We can't afford to be up one week and down the next. The players need to take some of the responsibility to be consistent each week. It is up to us to front up and deliver.

We can't afford to be complacent. If the industry doesn't embrace new technology, then we will be replaced. But, SCC is a technology that we are adopting enthusiastically.

We can't afford not to have him for 35-40 minutes in a playoff game. I'm not going to criticize the officials because they're working hard, but it is something that needs to be looked at.

We can't afford it. We're going to look to get out of businesses it just doesn't make sense for us to be in.

We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget that they're talking about,

We can't afford for this virus to be smoldering six months before we find it.

We can't afford for next year's growth potential to stop and slack up too much.

We can't afford any wake-up calls when it comes to preparing for or preventing a terrorist attack.

We can't afford any issue to hijack the relationship.

We can't afford another spanner in the works.

We can't afford another slip up. No one will win this league with three losses.

We had opportunities to make big plays and we did it in spurts and we just have to continue to minimize the mistakes. One thing about this offense is we cannot afford to make too many mistakes, we are killing ourselves. Anytime that you are 3rd-and-2 and it turns to 3rd-and-7 it changes the whole philosophy of the game, the game plan and game calling.

We had one guy come up to us and tell us to go to another neighborhood and that these people could afford to pay, ... I told him, 'Why should they pay? They just lost everything.'

We have this five game (home) stretch here, and we've already lost two, and we just cannot afford to lose anymore. I will do whatever it takes and trying to play with a little more confidence than I did before these two games and be more aggressive.

Time is money. Yves Saint Laurent is eating up a quarter of Gucci's profits. How long can they afford that?

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Year after year, as drug prices rise much faster than inflation, more and more seniors are forced to go without much-needed medications. The millions of low-income seniors, who subsist on Social Security checks that rise no faster than inflation, can no longer afford skyrocketing drug prices. Congress must act now to provide real relief to them.

We need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. ... We can't afford to drive the ball for six-plus minutes and come up empty.

We have large e-mail providers, including AOL, that want to turn e-mail communication into a privileged realm for those who can afford to pay a corporate tax.

While we had been willing to give Andersen the benefit of the doubt until the completion of that investigation, we can't afford to wait any longer in light of recent events, including the reported destruction of documents by Andersen personnel and the disciplinary actions taken against several of Andersen's partners working in its Houston office,

Unless you have a crystal ball that guarantees you'll be healthy for the next year, you're better off signing up if you can afford it.

We gift wrapped this game and they dropped it. We can't afford to play like this (tomorrow) or we'll lose by 40.

We get families with kids and retired people, and I'm sure they're all on fixed incomes where they can't afford that extra for gas, so I can understand that.

We can afford to offer it to more people since it is relatively complication-free. This has become the most common surgical procedure in Western Europe for weight loss. It has the pole position.

We can afford to do things that people trying to make a profit can't.

We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and is an excellent investment.

We can afford for the index to fall from the highs that we saw at the turn of the year without losing too much growth momentum.

We can afford an increase in the deficit for a year or so,

We can afford, and do spend, for nothing but the very best in terms of environmental, health and safety issues. We can afford it and we don't cut corners. It's critical to our business model and our business success.

We came out there wide-eyed and scared. We can't afford to have that many turnovers; we're not that offensively gifted.

We made crucial mistakes at times when we couldn't afford it. We are going to regroup.

We need to be able to move the ball. At times we've had consistency, but we can't afford to have three plays and out or allow penalties to get us backed up. New Philadelphia is too good of a football team for us to do that. We need to be able to hold it and move it and we really have to put it in the end zone.

We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.

The preseason will help us evaluate who plays well together. It will also let the team find its true personality. Time will tell for this team. We can't afford to look at the end of the season. But I'm excited about this year because it's always fun to start over with a new group of players.

The problems are worst in the capital, and it is the one place we can't afford to get it wrong. The clock is ticking.

The problem is we can't afford to take 11 to 12 days to get a car to a customer.

The problem is the landowner can't afford to have his timber cleaned up because there's no market now for the pines or hardwood.

The quality of our youth development was poor. United were the best. Arsenal became very successful. We couldn't afford to ignore it. We decided to go for it in our own inimitable style. There's an element of playing catch-up, and we have elbowed a few. We are doing what they have been doing forever. There is just another club breaking up that cartel.

We are in an environment where we can't afford everything, but there are some choices.

We know, right now, we've got to bring our A-game. We can't have an A-minus because we can't afford to lose anything.

Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwise.

We'll never be in a position where we can protect everything, all the time. We can't afford it, and we don't want to infringe on the values we're trying to preserve.

Those who don't want to give up this information -- or who can't afford the costs -- will have to deal with other airport screening lines growing exponentially longer. This isn't a choice any traveler should be forced to make.

Those who can afford to pay it out of pocket are paying out of pocket. Those who can't are doing without that medication.

We were in the stall offense, but we weren't trying to hold the ball. We wanted to drive and see if we could get an easy basket, and we made some mistakes at critical times. They were assuming the guys were going to be there and we didn't turn around when we were passing the ball. We have a young team and they just made some mistakes. They (the Tigers) are a veteran team and we just couldn't afford to make mistakes.

We didn't run the ball once in the second half because we wanted to kill the clock. We needed to keep the ball in our hands because we just couldn't afford to let Wolcott's offense get on the field.

We are a charity. We need donations from those people who can afford it. Those who can't afford the YMCA need to let us know so we can help them.

We're not sure what role the weblog will play in the future. But I don't think newspapers can afford to ignore these trends.

We are quickly running out of time. We are making very little progress in our negotiations. The situation is fragile and not one where we can afford to be divided. What the politicians don't seem to grasp is that if we don't act wisely and quickly, our decision could lead the country into even worse chaos.

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

We had a pretty spirited halftime, and we just looked at it as pretty much a turning point for our season. We can't afford to lose too many games, especially at home, and we just knew we needed to come out and shut them down. At halftime we ratcheted it up and got down to our defense.

When healthy, he adds a veteran to the rotation, a lefty in our park, and a strong presence in the clubhouse. And with the depth we've added to the pitching staff, we can afford to let him come back at his own pace.

We play in a very tough league and although we have come a long way, can't afford this type of performance against teams in our league. So now we'll really see just how much we have progressed and who we can count on against much better competition.

We played a bad game (against Providence) but do you know with four minutes to go we're down seven and they're shooting 60 percent and we're shooting in the 30s? That tells you if we shoot 60 percent we're up 20 points. That's what I had to tell our kids -- we're not that far off. But we can't afford to go and have a half like that ever.

We plan to have multiple ticket price levels so that everyone can afford to support the effort, and we will also make 200 tickets available at no charge to anyone who has been evacuated to Austin,

We promised that we would be lowering our season ticket prices and we are happy to deliver. Our entire organization is excited that we were able to reduce season ticket prices on every seat at American Airlines Center. This makes it easier for all fans to afford tickets.

When a team is short-handed, you can't allow them to hang around and feed off their emotions. Knowing that they got guys out, guys want to come out and play a little extra hard, try to pick it up. You can't afford to let those type teams hang around too long.

We didn't play very well, but you wouldn't know because they didn't hang their heads, but we really need to play well for our own sake. I think our kids are the ones that can do that. In this district you can't afford to fall into a slump and a losing streak can hurt you.

We are going to try to bring in a well-known children's author if we can afford to do that,

We're not even thinking about Duke. We can't afford to.

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This nation can't afford presidential leadership that comes in 57 varieties, ... We need a decisive president who stands his ground. We need George W. Bush.

We afford ourselves the best chance of maintaining stability in the highly complex Pacific region by inviting China into the global system rather than keeping it out,

We're doing well because we make the more expensive boats. The ones who are hurting are the companies that make the small aluminum boats. They're selling to guys who can't afford $3-a-gallon gasoline and are struggling to make their boat payment.

The rapid pace of appreciation and other negatives has made housing become very unaffordable. About one-third of home buyers can afford the median price of a house using the traditional down payment of 20 percent down.

Upon first glance, the cost involved would be exorbitant and would be something the state could not afford. (If) the MPO came up with a creative way to source the funding then it could become a possibility. But the state could never afford this.

This would be saving city funds because it would be run by a non-profit. And they would be providing services we can't afford to provide on a city budget. We'd love to see that.

The question is will there be some panic selling by buyers who bought during 2002-2003 and can't afford to hold on. The answer is nobody really knows the answer to that question.

The question is whether we could afford the million dollars now per annum without seeing some value for it and that's where the Guyana (Cricket) Board is calling for an evaluation of their performance.

The question is whether we can afford the million dollars per annum without seeing some value for it.

The question is: Where can a parish get the funding to do this kind of work? Can they afford to take some aggressive and unusual steps?

The prospect of weapons of mass destruction being used again is terrifying. We cannot afford to let this happen. Our failure to address the threats from these weapons at this summit leaves us with a crucial task ahead,

This starts a tough stretch for us and we can't afford a loss at home. If we want to win (the region) again, we have to win the big games, especially at home. But it won't be easy. Gainesville is really playing well and starting to do some things on offense that will definitely be a challenge for us.

You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

Today required a lot of concentration because it only took a mental lapse of a few seconds and the set was over. All he needs is one break and he's won the set. I couldn't afford to get too risky.

We would like to bring both of them back, if we can afford them in our budget, but valuable players get to a point where maybe they are beyond what you can afford,

We definitely had an opportunity and let it slip away. You can't afford to do that on your home floor.

We definitely need to win one of the next two. We can't afford to lose any more.

We gave them some easy scores, which we said we couldn't afford to do and we never were able to get anything going offensively on the ground or in the air. We never had any momentum in the game.

We want to make sure that health benefits are available to anyone who needs them. At the same time, we recognize there are folks who need time to become solvent as a business so they can afford to offer full-blown insurance to their employees.

We been together for less than two months and there are only 17 days before the next match, ... International matches are always prestigious, but this is one we can afford to lose.

The demand for Final Four tickets soared when this event went corporate, ... Corporate interests are the ones that can really afford to push the price, and they want more than tickets.