Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June Visit. Erhard's government, though skeptical of Ulbricht's motives, cannot afford to oppose the new mood. Last week, in league with the Social Democrats, it was drafting legislation granting special immunity to visiting East Germans who might come on the speakers' exchange. The East German response was to call for a postponement of the talks until July, but that may not mean the end of the affair. Observers believe that the Kremlin favors discussions and no doubt will tell the East Germans more or less what it wants them to say. But the Kremlin itself...
...spend much more time simply keeping abreast of his profession, thus has less time for individual patients. Moreover, his new skills can best be employed not in the home, but in the office or hospital, where equipment is available. With growing affluence and insurance, more and more people can afford what he has to offer. Since the overall ratio of doctors to population has remained roughly the same-one doctor for 760 people-the result is that the patient-load on doctors has doubled in just a few years. Because the patient is increasingly sophisticated about medicine, thanks to better...
...medicine is now recognizing that the general practitioner fills a need that is not being met. He tends to serve in rural areas, and to be the mainstay of the poor and the slum dweller, who cannot afford the several specialists many families now have for their varied ills. Most of all, the family doctor, available in greater numbers, would help restore the oldtime warmth to the doctor-patient relationship...
...broke print for the first time with an interesting issue--all the more so because its editors seem to have solved their problems of selection by including everything they could find. The infrequent throwaway of an undergraduate publishing cartel is reputedly paying for undergraduate fiction--something nobody else can afford to do. And then there's the Island, the first fruit of an extraordinarily literary freshman class...
...dealers with high turnover can afford to offer better bargains than small dealers. So can established dealers who are not paying big mortgages for new showrooms or buying costly advertising to get new clients. The "Honest Bob" whose commercials are constantly on television undoubtedly has a high advertising overhead, which he is passing on to the buyer. >Optional extras installed in the factory, such as power steering and power brakes, carry a 21% to 25% markup, but extras installed by the dealer, like side-view mirrors and seat covers usually have a 40% markup. >Different models in the same series...