Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate group who, more than ever, provide a significant link with the people and activities of Greater Boston. It is good for a university, no matter how national in scope, to keep its roots in a community. Of course, it would be ideal if all students coming here could afford the cost of a full-residential experience and if we had a place for them in our dormitories. But in this less than the best of all possible worlds we sometimes have to compromise. Our present arrangement for commuters seems to me a good one, and we may hope that...
...House debate over Porter's resolution to ask whether "perhaps we are beginning to find our way into the One World Federation." He was all for Nixon's rule of law proposal, said Bow, so long as it protects U.S. sovereignty. Replied Porter: "I think we could afford to make some concessions for world peace...
...this new competition has raised the question of how the U.S. can prevent itself from being priced out of world markets. Inland Steel's Smith is not alone in asking how much longer the U.S. can afford the contrast between the $3.03 average U.S. steel wage and, according to latest available figures, the 89? average for Luxembourg, the 78? average for Belgium, the 68? average for West Germany, or the 41? for Japan. One obvious but unlikely solution is for foreign countries to raise wages faster, share more of the benefits of rising productivity with their workers...
...lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says many an economist (see State of Business), is face up to the fact that it can no longer afford raises not balanced by gains in productivity. The alternative will be an accelerating loss in markets-and eventually jobs...
...longer afford to dismiss federalism as an idea for "a little group of serious thinkers," Munoz stated, implying that the alternative is destructive nationalism and possible nuclear extinction. "Wars in the past," the Governor of Puerto Rico said, "have been fought by national states or blocs with a prospect of victory; there is no such prospect in the future," because of the absolute power of modern weapons...