81.   Companies cannot afford to retain such leaders who only know how to manage good times but are helpless during tough times.

82.   Companies could afford to neglect their people or take them for granted, because employees had fewer options.

83.   Dealers advised shareholders to sell UEM shares because they felt that the company could not afford the bailout.

84.   Cut the supplementary costs, the government argues, and companies can afford to create new jobs.

85.   Employees of international oil, gas and mining firms generally are considered most at risk of being kidnapped overseas, in part because their companies can afford ransoms.

86.   He said the company could no longer afford to make the cartons or the pasted chips.

87.   In the poultry industry, for example, meat and egg production has virtually collapsed because companies cannot afford to buy imported feed.

88.   Neither can companies afford to write off the investments made in human capital by retrenching workers or to bring such investments to a standstill when the going gets tough.

89.   No company can afford to floatbonds at this time.

90.   This is because the technology for zero burning is available and plantation companies can afford to use it to get rid of biomass for replanting purposes.