Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making your head of state double in the role of chief administrative officer of the state, you impose burdens upon the incumbent which inevitably must shorten his life ... You could afford a King or an Emperor, and so keep your symbolic head of state out of politics, and free your administrative chief from the burdens of ceremonies and affixing signatures to many documents...
...Communist aim . . . Self deception . . . is nothing new in the history of American liberalism, but today, when it serves so well the purposes of those for whom deception is a basic strategy, and when it effects such a profound corruption of thought and culture, it is a luxury we cannot afford...
...Washington last week, District of Columbia commissioners turned down a proposal to treat the city's water with fluorine on the ground that the nation's capital can't afford...
...down in his Detroit office to compose a letter to the presidents of 881 colleges and universities across the U.S. He knew, he said, that "higher education has serious financial problems. We also know that . . . many of the young men and women cannot attend college simply because they cannot afford the costs." Henry Ford thereupon announced that he had a plan to help out on both counts-one of the fattest scholarship programs ever sponsored by private industry...
...Rafael and the orange and lemon trees on his ten-acre place at nearby Fairfax, he turned his cons over to a medical staff of 13 doctors and four nurses, plus a host of part-time specialists. "They get," he says, "a damn sight better attention than I could afford for myself. It's a helluva lot more than most of 'em deserve...