What can you buy that you can't already afford?" Cross: "The future, Mr. Gittes!
What it doesn't acknowledge is that some young people are already afforded that benefit of the doubt.
Sanford C. Bernstein, an investment bank, estimates that 270m people in China can already afford Apple's products, and that each year another 57m will be able to.
It gives victims the same federal safeguards already afforded to people who are victims of violent crimes because of their race, color, religion or national origin.
Their lawsuits seek better fields, locker rooms and equipment -- facilities and services that would be comparable, they say, to those already afforded the boys' high school baseball teams.
Over time, societies will spend more of their resources on services like medical care, since they can already afford basic material comforts.
MPs expressed concern that the discount applied to starter homes could make them an attractive investment for those who can already afford to buy a home, as after five years owners will be allowed to sell at full market value.
In recommending that more effort is made to keep 18-25s oft of prison, the justice committee's report effectively suggests that the leniency already afforded to comparatively privileged young people is extended across the class spectrum.
That Hay House can already afford these prices helps explain why Tracy has turned away the investment banks that, he says, have approached him on behalf of larger publishing houses looking to make a purchase.
Given the amount of money the Clintons are going to make on their book deals, they can already afford to purchase a pied-a-terre in every American city with a population over 50,000.
