Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard of living more rapidly than technological improvements have raised it. To maintain the same standard of living with a three per cent annual population growth--a figure exceeded by many of these countries--twelve per cent of the national income should be invested. These countries, however, cannot afford both to raise living standards and feed millions of new citizens. At some point, the vicious circle of low investment, low living standards, and high birth rates must be broken...
...Repsholdt got a big hand for his stand. But he did not roll back the angry majority, which, on a show of hands, had vowed all-out opposition to the integrated subdivision. Murmured one North Shore householder as Deerfielders signed up for the fight "We just can't afford to be democratic...
Down at Yale, they make a big deal over charity. Like frisbee and Ivy Magazine, like snowball riots and football movies, giving is "shoe." At Harvard, if you can't afford to throw it away, you can't afford to give it away. Harvardmen being as self-conscious as they are, a gift of too much is as embarrassing as a gift of too little...
...match Joyce Clyde Hall, 68, founder and president of Hallmark greeting cards. Some time in the next few days. Hall will choose a Christmas card from this year's Hallmark line and send it to no fewer than 6,000 friends and acquaintances. He can afford it. Over the past 50 years, Hallmark has grown into the goliath of the greeting card business, producing 4,000,000 copies of 11,000 different cards each day for sale through 22,000 retailers in four countries. Hallmark's gross is estimated at more than $90 million annually, twice...
...Brooklyn dress manufacturer who didn't know the name of the premier of Ceylon and the German-speaking Ambassador to France are all too typical of American amateur diplomats. Such men are needed, in the cases of Paris, London and other Western European capitals, because a career man cannot afford the huge expenditures of an embassy social season; they are used in other cases because the United States has not awakened to the importance in international relations of normal diplomatic channels and a competent man on the spot...