Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every suspect must now be "warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning, if he so desires...
...Better Answers. Whether or not Catholic education is effective, Greeley and Rossi conclude that it is not about to disappear. For one thing, the church could ill afford to abandon a multibillion-dollar investment. For another, the opinion survey showed that most Catholics, regardless of their educational background, approved of parochial schools and preferred that their own children attend them. Finally, the survey editors believe that the church in the U.S. has not found a better way to teach children what it means to be a Catholic...
...about footbinding are presented by Howard Levy, an eminent U.S. sinologue, in the first history of the subject printed in the West. The bound foot, says Levy, was both a means of hobbling women and an emblem of conspicuous leisure. Only a man of means, the Chinese thought, could afford a wife so badly crippled that she could hardly walk. Yet the principal appeal of the practice may come as a shock to Westerners. Levy states flatly that footbinding survived, despite its anatomical and emotional horrors, because the Chinese for more than a thousand years were a nation of foot...
...also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers, for 80 or more uses. Its convenience, they say, extends beyond hospitals and other institutions to the private home (if it can afford the unit price of $495) where a family member is convalescent or bedridden...
Perhaps no station has done more journalistic pioneering than New Orleans' WDSU-TV. Owned by Edgar B. Stern Jr., a major stockholder in Sears, Roebuck, WDSU begins with a built-in advantage: it can afford to budget some $400,000 a year for TV news coverage. And most of WDSU's 18 reporters have had experience in other kinds of journalism-an unusual state of affairs in any TV news department. News Director John Corporon, 37, who served as U.P.I, bureau chief in New Orleans, has a wire-service fascination with fastbreaking stories plus a balancing lack...