Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawyer Harry Peck, 34, says: "A person who follows my advice and works hard on developing his case is probably going to stay out of the Army." Los Angeles Attorney William Smith, 36, who is an ex-Air Force captain, claims that if a boy and his parents can afford $250 a year, "I can give them 99.9% assurance that he won't be drafted-and I won't do anything illegal." He adds: "That is the tremendous inequity of the system...
...long as draft boards can act capriciously, draft lawyers perform a valid legal service. Unfortunately, an obvious problem is that men who can afford skilled draft lawyers have a clear advantage over the sons of poor families who cannot pay high legal fees. Though some lawyers are helping to train "draft counselors," who give free help, the poor still get less than professional advice-more sad proof that the present draft laws not only make draft lawyers necessary but also breed contempt for law in general...
...fall of 1969, and there are not many forms of non-violent protest left. The Faculty can't afford to let these slip...
...immigrants, often the first of their families to have graduated from college or to have accumulated enough capital to become modest entrepreneurs. They have status but are not secure in it. They have aspirations for the good life but not quite enough income to achieve it. They cannot afford private schools for their children, and the public schools in many of their neighborhoods are bad. They cannot tolerate crime; yet it keeps rising. They are open to liberal approaches, but the city has had liberal administrations of one kind or another for as long as they can remember while conditions...
...Esterel's "négligé snob" would get father and son in the act, too, with everyone wearing identical family jerseys. And then there is Marc Bohan's "Baby Dior" line. It's not every two-year-old who can wear (or whose parents can afford) a white lace dress costing $100, or a white rabbit coat...