1.   The reason our schools cannot afford better teachers is because people here are poor.

2.   Although the prosperous business school could afford the gesture, such altruism violated Harvard practice.

3.   At Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk, Va., Lawrence Johnson said, the predominantly black school could afford only one training pole.

4.   But in both countries, many schools cannot afford the new books, and still use apartheid- or Soviet-era textbooks.

5.   But the only room the school had available had a concrete floor, which the school could not afford to carpet.

6.   Crew feared, the officials said, that affluent parents might create a two-tier system, paying for services that poorer schools could not afford.

7.   Schools could not afford to hire new teachers in the Depression.

8.   The parents were told that there were fewer fourth-grade students than expected, so the school could not afford a fifth teacher.

9.   The school can afford to be picky.

10.   The technology is changing so quickly that teachers do not have the ability to keep up, and schools cannot afford to keep pace.