Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with its NATO allies in talking disarmament with Russia, it still insists on the points of principle and procedure that would make U.S.-Russian disarmament a two-sided proposition; 2) the U.S., in its determination to match and surpass the Soviets in the missile race, can not afford to neglect such equally important phases of the cold war as foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade. The decisions of the NATO conference, said Dulles, add up "to quite a lot, assuming, of course, that they are carried out with vigor...
...argues, "that there can be no Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe unless this entire area can be removed as an object of military rivalry of the great powers . . . Finally, the question is not just whether Moscow 'wants' German unification. It is a question of whether Moscow can afford to stand in the way if there were a possibility of a general evacuation of Europe...
...lower than the plant average. Considering such savings in production hours-and the fact that company programs for the problem drinker cost little-many companies consider help for the alcoholic not only humane but profitable. Says Henry Mielcarek, employee services manager for Allis-Chalmers: "We couldn't afford not to have an alcoholism program." He figures it saves the company at least $80,000 a year in absenteeism costs alone...
...shop, his gaze resting for a moment on a browser. "I sell a lot of books to people who come in not wanting anything in particular. One thing that always hurts, though, is to see someone come across a book he obviously wants and just as obviously can't afford. I remember all too well the times at Cornell when I went hungry to buy books...
...extended to Peking itself. Farmers were unrationed, but they were getting less than half the pork they had eaten in the past; the state bought their pigs at fixed low prices through the purchasing monopoly, sold them back through the state sales monopoly at a price few peasants could afford. In the cities there was often not enough to fill even the ration. In Shanghai people got up at 3 a.m. to get at the head of the queues in the pork market...