Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these grants, despite all the hullabaloo created by the News Office, are piddling. Radcliffe will still offer only seven all-expense scholarships to students whose families can afford to pay nothing at all. The college, unlike Harvard, will continue to have almost no representation from the lower half of America's economy. President Bunting has acknowledged the college's inability to offer admission to these students but claims Radcliffe will seek them out more frequently once it obtains funds for the purpose...
...will withhold decision, however, until they have studied similar experiments undertaken this year at Princeton and Brown. But there can be little doubt that pass-fail grading, in some form, ought to be attempted here. Harvard students should not have to be so committed to concentrations that they cannot afford to take a chance. Gambling could prove to be the best kind of General Education...
...Quang, in common with many of his brother monks, was hardly over joyed. For 80 years under the French, Catholicism had been nurtured at the expense of Buddhism, and a Catholic church occupied the choice site in every town. Catholic schools provided education that the Buddhists could not afford to match, and Catholic merchants and civil servants, thus equipped, inevitably prospered. To Tri Quang, the Catholic Diem was merely an extension of the worst ills of French rule. In the monk's mind, Buddhism and nationalism were inextricably mixed and Diem was a blasphemy on Viet Nam's true destiny...
...June 1 election neared, provisional President Héctor García-Godoy could afford a sigh of satisfaction. "I feel sure," he said, "that the next President will have some basis for order and stability." Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Pérez y Pérez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." Dominicans, facing their first free elections since 1962, could only hope that the mood would last...
...case, there was no doubt about the military's rising discontent over Nasser's disastrous adventure in Yemen. Egypt has committed 70,000 troops to the Republican cause at a cost of $500,000 a day, a drain its sick economy can ill afford. Casualties have been high: an estimated 600 Egyptian soldiers were wounded last month. Even more demoralizing are the brutalities of the Saudi-supported Yemeni Royalists, who like to send captured Egyptian soldiers back to their camps with their ears and noses chopped off. For all its sacrifices in Yemen, Egypt still controls less than...