Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany which will contribute 12 divisions to NATO and serve as the first line of resistance. This course, the aim of Western foreign policy for the past four years, was assured only two months ago with the ratification of the Paris pacts. In the near future, the West cannot afford to lose German forces and bases. Already the Austrian treaty has driven a neutral spike into the Western defense forcing removal of troops from Austria and cutting off Italy from direct communication with NATO forces in Germany. The neutralization of Germany would force a complete realignment of defenses and would...
Designed for promising future top executives who have been five to ten years in business, the program is presently bucking competition from the companies that should be using it. Firms have apparently found they can't afford to lose their future presidents for so long a period of time...
...most important thing about Honig's skill as a poet is that it is unobtrustive. He cannot afford to let flights of technical proficiency distract his readers from the spectacles of the moral circus that he is showing them, and so he keeps himself the lens through which they observe. When he distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only...
...accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment in a desirable manner by a reduction of tax rates at income levels where individuals can afford the risk of losses that accompany uncertain undertakings...
...atomic power projects, the scientists at Liège last week were almost unanimous in agreeing that there is no other choice. "What countries will be the first to have atomic power stations?" asked Belgium's Atomic Energy Boss Pierre Rychmans. "The Western European countries, which cannot afford to do otherwise . . . where the production of coal can't keep up with the needs of power stations." Out of foresight and necessity, Western Europe is putting its revived industrial brawn behind its scientific brains in the quest for nuclear power...