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Dean Harbaugh expressed skepticism about the cent ral thesis of "Paper Chase to Money Chase," that debt-strapped young attorneys cannot afford public law careers.
A high-performance video game can't afford the performance penalty of Java, but if you trust the manufacturer, digital signatures that guarantee ActiveX give you the confidence to run it.
Accumulations of Bill Safire's books (of which I think this is the tenth anthology of his language articles) afford us with articulate commentary on American usage in the last quarter of the 20th century.
But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
The Community Legal Resources Network ''helps lawyers become economically viable so they can serve the poor and lower middle class, who often can't afford legal representation,'' said Dorothy Zellner, the law school's spokeswoman.