Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Wilhelm Thagaard, Norway's price-control director for more than 30 years. Thagaard's economic philosophy has a single premise: free enterprise is essentially evil; ethics, integrity and devotion to the community are luxuries which the ordinary businessman, in the struggle against competition, cannot afford. Since business is essentially cannibalistic, it must be saved from itself, and Wilhelm Thagaard considers himself equipped to do the saving...
...cleaning plant. He also found that this fact has all sorts of consequences. Haitian businessmen suffered from it, because they could not find much of a market for woolens, gabardines or satins. Most Haitians stuck to washable linens, since only a few of the rich could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion of nimble seamstresses were affected, because they could exercise their skill only on the familiar old linens. Diplomats were affected, because keeping a morning coat or a uniform presentable...
After Democrat Yorty saw the first headlines, he topped his first story with a demand that Wilson resign. Said he: "We cannot afford to have the Defense Department headed by a defeatist Secretary whose vision is so circumscribed by dollars, profits, and grossly exaggerated economic strain...
...second floor are individual offices for clinical instructors. When remodelling scheduled to be done this summer ends by September, all clinical teaching will come together within a compact area designed to afford close contact between faculty, students, and patients...
Tandy's big mistake was to identify himself as a member of the Emporia staff when signing the petition. Somehow this got into the papers. This was a legislative year in Kansas, the year in which a state-supported college cannot afford to incur the displeasure of the legislators. When he heard of the petition, the Secretary of the State Board of Regents told Tandy he should resign in twenty-four hours or else be fired. Tandy held firm. The Emporia faculty, under Jacobs' urging, voted to support "any action the administration of the college might take against Tandy"--even...