Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva last week, time was running out for the West. The Communists stalled. They could afford...
...lover and author of a Puccini biography) has an answer. He thinks Americans are frightened by serious music, and he wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music and Opera Without Singing, he can afford to risk a few on more esoteric items. His own pet recording project: the huge (oversize symphony, chorus, soloists, four brass choirs) and presumably profitless Requiem by Berlioz. This way, he believes, everybody wins...
...sure laugh at stockholder meetings of his key Delhi Oil Co. is provided by a stockholder, a mailman who has made a small fortune. He plaintively asks the same question year after year: "Clint, when you goin' to pay a dividend?" Delhi stockholders, who get few dividends, can afford to guffaw at this. They all know that Murchison is interested not in dividends but in piling up the lower-taxed capital gains. He achieves them for himself and his stockholders by "spinning" new companies out of old ones...
...Housing Registry performs a most valuable service, particularly to graduate students and their families, by listing information on rooming houses in the area. But unless it can effectively detect discrimination when it occurs, the Registry is in danger of merely feeding numerous customers to the landladies so they can afford to discriminate against minority groups...
Present Government subsidies, said Murray, make up the "construction differential," i.e., the difference between the cost of shipbuilding at home and abroad. But even with this aid, few shippers can afford the required down payment of 25% on new vessels. Foreign competition has grown so large that the U.S. fleet in operation represents only 10% of the world's merchant ships. Operating costs are also high. An American freighter with a 51-man crew has a monthly payroll of $20,800 v. $4,700 for a British crew...