1.   How can a small business afford to keep so much inventory?

2.   Also credit long-distance telephone deregulation, which has made those advances cheap enough that even small business can afford them.

3.   Businesses could afford to borrow more money to invest in their facilities and more jobs could be created in our country.

4.   He said businesses can afford it.

5.   In other cases, when she knows the person or business in question cannot afford to pay a fine, she uses kind, neighborly threats.

6.   Initially, only businesses could afford phones and they supplied the investment funds for building the nascent network.

7.   Republican opponents contend the increase would cause elimination of jobs because small businesses could not afford the increase.

8.   Small businesses can now afford the latest video conferencing systems, although it will be a while before they appear in the malls.

9.   Some people argue that businesses cannot afford to buck the culture.

10.   The only exception was for establishments with an enclosed, separately ventilated room, which few businesses could afford.