Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
When the jet planes were ready for production, C. R. Smith decided that for once American did not have to be first, though it could not afford to be last. He held off ordering until Pan American had placed the first firm orders for the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, and United Air Lines had picked the DC-8. He shrewdly figured this would increase his bargaining power-as it did. To land American's order, Boeing agreed to enlarge the 707 fuselage, sell the planes for $500,000 less apiece than...
...members must make considerable financial sacrifice to teach under the present system, and MIT teachers even more. As it is, only relatively well-to-do "idealists" can afford to participate in the program. Scholarship students are effectively excluded as are many students with cars, Herzog reports. Most of the students could earn extra money tutoring if they were not in the HUT. Herzog is looking for an organization that will lend financial support so that the group can pay interested undergraduates a salary of $2.50 an hour plus transportation expenses...
Radio is a particularly effective weapon, she asserted, since it can reach the numerous Southerners who cannot read, and who either cannot afford a television set or live beyond television broadcasting ranges...
...West can remain united in its insistence on an inspection system, however, it can afford to compromise on its other demands, and accept a test ban for a five or ten year period. The prospect that Russia would agree to the compromise, while not particularly good, cannot be ruled out. After all, it was the Soviet Union which proposed at last year's meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that nuclear tests be stopped for two or three years...