Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a century the white-bearded old master has stood unchallenged at the peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
First, they can always campaign for increased enrollments at sectarian private schools. If such a drive were successful, however, each church organization would have to build a large number of new buildings, which many of them cannot afford. Anyway, this is a dubious way to get at the vast majority of school children, who attend America's public schools, and who are organized religion's target...
...nation could afford to tamper with international trade in the past because the U. S. consumer paid the piper in higher prices and never knew the difference. But now these small interest groups are doing more than just milking domestic consumers; they are endangering the economic balance of the free world and may force some Western European nations to turn towards the some West European nations to turn towards the USSR...
Today, when almost every nation that can afford Arctic expeditions is sending them into the field, Nye's stay-at-home equations may prove to be a valuable key to polar secrets...
...inevitable. Both of its biggest U.S. competitors, United Press and International News Service, are already deep in the TV news field, provide stations with special scripts and daily news film. In the last few years TV news has become so important that A.P. could no longer afford to stay out. But despite all the money and time spent on TV, the news programs are still far short of the telecasters' dreams. Even newspapers which own TV stations now realize that covering news for TV is not like reporting: it is an entirely new, costly and different job, that cannot...