Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value of the whole-class lecture as a didactic technique is recognized. It is hoped, however, that more limited use of this technique will afford time for small group discussions and problem solving exercises in which the stimulus for learning may be more intense and individual needs more readily...
...purchasing American military equipment. The Germans have fallen $600 million in arrears on their commitment to buy $1.3 billion in U.S. arms during a two-year period ending next June. Erhard's argument is that West Germany needs no more equipment at this time, and cannot really afford to keep to its contract...
...kind of brothel of the intellect, and nobody can write a report on a brothel while primly standing outside the door. The idea that he knows precisely what art is, and what it is not, is, it seems to me, the only one which the conscientious art critic cannot afford to give a hearing...
...lead poisoning was class selective, Gilfillan argues, because the poor rarely could afford wine, used cheap earthenware cooking utensils, and did not have such luxuries as cosmetics. But, says he, the aristocracy's "high death rate, as well as its low birth rate, strongly suggests lead poisoning," and his still incomplete work on exhumed bones tends to confirm his theory. Using tombstone inscriptions as a guide, he reports that life expectancy among the upper classes was 22-25 years; literary and census data indicate that the number of aristocratic births was remarkably low, "perhaps one-fourth of what would...
...Next Victim. Corporations can afford today's lofty interest rates. Many local governments feel that they cannot, even though municipal and state bonds enjoy a lower rate level because investors pay no federal income tax on their earnings. Nashville last week postponed a $25 million offer of sewer and water bonds, and Baltimore failed to obtain a single bid on a $31.8 million issue because the city set an interest limit of 41% - the equivalent of a 9% taxable investment for a man in the 50% income tax bracket. After housing, bond men forecast, civic improvements may well become...