11.   At the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon and Congress thought the country could afford fewer experts tracking Soviet missile silos.

12.   Better health care systems are expensive, too costly for the poorest countries to afford.

13.   A wise man once said that, when seeking to ensure its survival, a country cannot afford to have permanent friends.

14.   Albright said neither country can afford to allow the relationship to be defined alone by one or two issues.

15.   But he said that millions of illegal immigrants were arriving every year, and suggested that the country could not afford to support them.

16.   But in an interview at the hilltop palace he inherited, Muluzi said his country cannot afford a witch hunt, even if it wanted one.

17.   But most countries cannot afford the costs of such tests or to pay for the costly drugs.

18.   But officials of the governing African National Congress say the country cannot afford such payments.

19.   But poor countries cannot afford these drugs.

20.   But the country could no longer afford to defend the currency with its diminishing reserves, which must also be used to pay foreign debt.