Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters of Strategy." In fact, the President could afford to shrug. The out-in-the-open criticism had somehow helped to clear the air. Ike was working hard on his congressional program. At the same time, changes in the Republican leadership of both House and Senate, which seemed at the time to work against Middle-Roader Eisenhower, had actually given him better organization to work with in both houses. As rarely before in more than six years of the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican President and the Republican members of Congress were behaving as if they belonged to the same party...
...public acclaim, most Danes ignored the words of Knud Lauritzen, a private shipowner, who declared that the steel plates on the Hans Hedtoft should have been welded, not riveted, because the riveting of plates on a rigid frame does not afford enough resistance to ice pressure. The criticism was passed off as the embittered words of a private operator who would rather the government chartered his ships than build...
...disarmament agreement is reached, missiles and nuclear bombs are also, by their very existence, instruments of aggressive diplomacy. If both sides concede that total war would be cataclysmic, a sizable advantage in weaponry enables one side to push its case much more firmly. A weaker opponent cannot rationally afford to meet his opponents' raise, especially if each side knows the other's hand. If the Soviets can marshal a substantial missile margin they can force peripheral issues and fragment our alliances by bullying smaller nations into neutrality. In short, our missile supply may be sufficient to discourage Russian attack once...
Several students said that they cannot afford to eat out. They suggested that food in Harkness Commons is deteriorating and that this order is designed to increase lagging patronage there. One declared that "It is not the tradition of the University to govern by ultimatum." Others objected that they have already invested heavily in refrigerators and cooking equipment...
Professor Seymour Harris came up with a plan of his own, after concluding that every Harvard student would eventually join the Brahmins. Harris calculated that a college student would make $100,000 more than a non-college student, and could therefore afford to buy his education on credit, on a sort of learn now, pay later, basis. When speculation arose as to how he had arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies...