Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide the same social services at less cost, which is electoral nonsense. One idea that the Tory brain-trusters are now considering is to make a charge for inexpensive medical drugs or treatment for minor ailments, but to give expensive drugs and major attention free to those who cannot afford...
Even if Buckley's theories on education are refuted and proved inconsistent and fascistic, his attacks on individuals will undoubtedly cause a faculty introspection at Yale. The Yale Daily News asserts that "we cannot afford to ignore this book." Neither will the graduates nor the administration for that matter. Each one of Buckley's accusations will have to be countered in some manner. And since the book deals with personalities at the college, Yale will not be able to keep up the comparative calm that exists there...
Sunset could well afford to move; it is by far the most successful U.S. regional magazine. Circulation has hit 500,000 (most of it in Pacific coast states), and is still growing. Sunset expects to earn $350,000 this year before taxes...
...will spend another $200 million to expand its refining and manufacturing operations, bringing its total expansion since war's end to $1 billion, one-twelfth of the whole U.S. industry's postwar investments. With such huge costs for hunting and producing oil, not even the giants can afford many mistakes. Says Gulf's 51-year-old President Sidney A. Swensrud: "A man used to be a good executive if he guessed right three out of five times. Now, you can't stay in business on executive hunches...
Searching for the best of all possible spots in this best of all possible worlds is a pastime everyone dreams of, but a few can afford. Most of us give up the idea of a search for a 20th century Garden of Eden and settle for a convenient, familiar place where the back fence hides a neighbor's garbage cans...