Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With open land a problem in Cambridge, the University has always eyed the MTA land, which is conveniently located to the Yard and other Houses. The main obstacle in the past has been the fact that the MTA could not afford to part with any of its existing facilities...
...University obviously cannot afford to bother with considerations of taste, so Prime and Choice are out. If the University cannot afford prime or choice, we might as well have Utility. After all, if we have to choose between Commercial and Utility, it seems six of one and half dozen of another. They both sound beastly...
...attacked the sales tax proposals becuse they would place more financial burden on low income groups than they could afford...
...matter of practical politics, harried Socialist Guy Mollet could scarcely afford to offer the Algerians anything new. Trapped between Algerian terrorists and diehard French imperialists, Mollet had little room for maneuver. Last week the news leaked out that the French government had arrested dashing Brigadier General Jacques Faure, assistant commander of the Algiers area, aboard a French train and sentenced him to 30 days' close confinement in the fortress of La Courneuve outside Paris because of his unconcealed conviction that "in moments of great national crisis [soldiers] must not hesitate to seize power...
...Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...