Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard and Radcliffe there is a large group of people in a hurry, who view pleasant studying as a self-contradictory concept or at least a luxury they can rarely afford. The student whose main interests lie outside of his courses wants to get his studying over with as quickly as possible; the reading-period crowds which fill the present libraries at the end of the term want to cram the most possible studying into their waning days. For these, the wonks of the Loeb, of Carpenter Center, or the classroom, pleasant surroundings are not attractive but distracting...
...when they demanded a quick political solution to the war. The Ivory Coast's Arsene Usher asked that the U.S. make "a lofty gesture by ending the bombings," and even Assembly President Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan argued that only a nation as powerful as the U.S. could afford to lose face in the interests of peace. Yet why should the U.S. be the only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter answer: "It is a well-established practice of totalitarian regimes that they declare themselves prepared...
...between the capital available and the capacity of the developing countries to use increasing amounts of capital effectively and productively." U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball, who is on the verge of retirement, replied: "No nation, when it is confronted with a serious balance of payments deficit, can afford to see the funds it transfers work their way through the international monetary circuit and end up in a gold drain-an increase in its payments deficit-and ultimately pressure to adopt restrictive domestic policies. This point is critical to the position of my country." The U.S., said Ball, will...
Sales, of necessity, are geared to the poorest of the poor who can afford nothing better: 25 cents a shot, $1.25 a pint, on credit if need be. Those bootleggers who live in areas where there are at least a few relatively well-heeled customers will have nothing to do with untaxed liquor: the amount of cash involved is far too little and there is too much uncertainty. The police, for whom it is the simplest of errands to run someone in for possession of untaxed liquor, refrain on payment of a staggering $8 per week for each patrolman...
...finest campuses. The channels of communication are weak. Very few Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should step up their active search for Negro applicants...