21.   In any case, governments can no longer afford to run the water business, especially in poor countries.

22.   In an interview, Secretary of Agriculture Javier Usabiaga said the government could not afford the paternalistic programs that have kept small farms going.

23.   Local government could not afford to fill the gap, so Ispat began paying to expand health services and to subsidize salaries for schoolteachers.

24.   Many of those already sent home have been discharged because the government cannot afford to maintain them in the service.

25.   Market watchers said, meanwhile, that the government could no longer afford to show a weak resolve in dealing with ailing businesses.

26.   Ms. Molinari said the national endowment should be phased out because the government simply cannot afford to provide funds for the arts.

27.   Of course governments could not afford such a cost.

28.   Only governments can afford expeditions into space and investigations of cosmic origins, and all but a few ventures to the poles and the seafloor.

29.   Politicians here said the government could no longer afford to tiptoe around China.

30.   Reagan urged volunteers to step forward to assume the role of caring for the poor that government no longer could afford.