Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail twice of selection are automatically retired in their early 50s has deprived the Navy of a wealth of experience. It is a silly and profligate practice . . . Throughout industry, the universal practice is to retire at age 65. No company in this country is so rich that it could afford retirement below 60. The cost in dollars between retiring at 52 and 65 is over $53,000. Such extravagance in dollars is bad enough, but the waste in experience is inexcusable...
...life and times America cannot afford to dispense with the technical knowledge and brilliant accomplishments of the Hyman Rickovers. If special action is needed to retain and utilize the very great capabilities of this man, for us all, then we ask the naval department to take that action...
...back countries of the Moslem world, the men who can afford it still keep the Allah-granted quota of four wives. Unable to read, forbidden to attend schools, or to listen to the deliberations of the males, millions of Islamic women remain quietly in their houses, unaware that there is any world beyond the narrow one visible through the slits in their veils...
...ring and his theatrics are gone, but the traditions and rituals of Germany's "noblest" sport have survived. Last week, at the height of the Blattzeit (roe deer mating season), hundreds of hunters trod through West Germany's deer country. Few could afford Göring's "hoch" style of shooting, but those who could manage it wore the hunter's minimum dress-green knickers, brown or green suede jacket, cravat, stylish hat, rubber-soled stalking shoes...
...Poor Man's Party" ticket (TIME, March 17). He scoffed at Driscoll's assertion that pigs could be raised daintily. "Sure, millionaires can do it," said Krajewski. "Doris Duke did it in Somerville. They tie perfume bottles on the pigs, but the average farmer can't afford such luxury." Furthermore, said Krajewski, it wasn't just Secaucus and it wasn't just pigs. The industrial areas near the Pulaski Skyway, he said, smell like embalming fluid: "Linden has assorted smells from paint and oil... There are chemical and acid smells, and Kopper's coke...