Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company," said Romney, "becomes muscle-bound and resistant to change." As it stands, the big carmakers are so laden with heavy fixed investment, Romney said, that they cannot afford to change from big cars to small even though the public may want them. As expected, he feels it does. American's January production of its small Ramblers was up 163% over the same 1957 period, and Romney expects "a substantial profit in 1958." Every other automaker had a January production slump. Chrysler slashed output 54% below the same period last year, Studebaker-Packard was down 59%, Ford 34%, General...
...consumers, the lag in the commercial nuclear program is no great worry. With plenty of coal, oil and gas, the U.S. can afford to wait. But what may not be economic for the U.S. is often economic for other nations with less resources. Britain, whose conventional-power costs are estimated at double those in the U.S. (7½ mills per kw-h), needs nuclear power right now; so do many other nations. Britain is going ahead under a nationalized program to build the actual power plants. It has been operating its Calder Hall plant, half again as big as Shippingport...
...policy by which "intellectual loafers and bench warmers" are being dropped. At a time of rising costs and the growing teacher shortage, the plan has its appeal. Says Calgary's Superintendent Warren: "In 1955 Calgary spent $344.29 on each high school pupil. The public cannot afford to provide such service to pupils who take an indifferent attitude toward their responsibilities...
...wild fauna from hunters. But Novelist Gary is really concerned with "another animal who needed protection"-man. Elephants to Morel are "the last and greatest living image of liberty that still existed on earth." Man, in the midst of his bad dreams of extinction by nuclear warfare, simply cannot afford to allow a noble form of life to be needlessly slaughtered. Morel has learned his respect for dignity in a hard school-a Nazi concentration camp, whose philosophical commandant well understood that National Socialism was a materialist revolution aimed at man's spirit. In the name of this spirit...
...final pantomines of the evening belonged to M. Marceau and his classic creation, Bip. "Bip as the Botany Professor," and "Bip as a Lion Tamer" are M. Marceau at his best. For those who could neither find tickets nor, for that matter, afford the prices, M. Marceau opens tomorrow in New York and remains there until February...