Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest storm blew up not over the loi-cadre itself but over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
Because these parents in most cases cannot afford to send their children to private institutions, they insist all the more upon a high standard for city-run schools; and many of them feel the Cambridge elementary school system to be subpar. Among those who remain in Cambridge, there is considerable resentment against the School Committee. One father of three children asserted that a majority of the Committee sent its children to private schools, because it knew the situation...
...good things come to an end. Eventually Verlaine could no longer afford the luxury of a public hospital; his poems were making too much money. Yet the journalists who flocked to interview him found him indescribably shabby. Where was the money going? It was a long time before they discovered that the "Prince of Poets" was supporting three retired prostitutes named Philomene, Eugenie and Caroline, and living with each in turn. No scandal could shake the dignity of the great man, who now referred to himself in the third person, saying: "He has little left to him except his poverty...
...question is, then, whether a free society can afford to let those who want to glide through school and thus waste needed talent. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, states the case for those who wish to require a more rigorous curriculum. "In the best of all possible worlds, we could be elated that man has unshackled himself from earth gravity. Unfortunately, we don't live in the best of all possible worlds...
Kerr's Law, which states in essence: all the houses you can afford to buy are depressing...