Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year have forged a brilliantly successful new tactical role for air power over Viet Nam, showed last week that the U.S. can indeed succeed. On the ground, American fighting men are not only taking on wily veterans of guerrilla warfare but are also inflicting losses that no foe can afford to take indefinitely. Yet in the long run, the kind of success envisaged by the President can be earned only by the nation that is most determined to win-at any price. The time for magnanimity, as the U.S. finally made clear last week, is at the conference table...
...plane. Explained one Hamburg University political scientist: "Food is an obsession with Germany. It is the symbol of everything the people lacked in the poverty and destruction of war. The most effective way a German has to remind himself that he is now prosperous is to be able to afford the most exotic foods in the world. It is the perfect, the ultimate status symbol...
...help offset the costs of charity work. What the Federal Government hoped was that doctors would bill directly only those patients they expected to pay higher-than-average fees, thus eliminating the possibility that an "unreasonable" excess might be tacked onto the bill of a patient who could not afford it. But when the question came to a vote in the house of delegates, the moderates were overridden and all A.M.A. doctors were urged-though not required-to bill every patient directly. The way some delegates saw it, the Government-preferred billing method somehow inserts Medicare into "the sacred doctor...
...series of one-shot, goodwill deposits from a variety of large white businesses such as Bowery Savings Bank and the Chemical Bank of New York. As long as Freedom National wants to feel sure that these funds will not be withdrawn from its vaults, it cannot afford to take open stands on social issues. In Haryou's language, what appeals to the black masses alienates the white power structure. Hudgins' church sermons on thrift, followed by solicitations, cannot spark the same kind of enthusiasm which could be generated by playing up the fact that Freedom National has no investments...
...WORLD LAW & POWER: "Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford."-U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg at the Catholic University of America...