Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition head on, detailed OEO's considerable accomplishments, and expressed his own impatience with not being able to do more faster. He likened the poor to labor-union members, who must sometimes settle for less than their full demands. "The American society can't afford wildcat strikes in the industrial area; even less can it afford wildcat strikes on the entire social order-and that's what Watts...
...Dead as a Hammer." In fact, the National Committee has no power to read a state out of the party. Even if it did, the G.O.P. is in no condition to afford another internecine conflict. National Chairman Ray Bliss, who was put into office to promote unity, is as conscious of the racial problem as the liberals, and has been quietly attempting to solve it. Bliss pushed for the recent appointment of Clarke Reed, a relatively moderate Mississippian, to replace racist Wirt Yerger as state party chairman. "The race issue," Reed is telling G.O.P. candidates, "is dead as a hammer...
...tons, this year's sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 tons under last year's crop and 1,500,000 tons less than Castro's earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled 12? to 2? per Ib. in the last 30 months. To add to his sugar blues...
...sprawling international auto show is where you go to savor the future and sample-test what you can't remotely afford. Manhattan's Tenth International, which opened last week, is no exception. With Detroit in the middle of its 1966 Model Year, the U.S. industry had whipped up futuristic show models as crowd catchers, but as in previous years, the honors go to foreign imports, which tend to be fast, sporty and expensive...
...gold one. Advance printing reached 175,000 copies, and even before it was written Producer Joe Levine, who bankrolled The Carpetbaggers, took a million-dollar option on it, plans to put it before the cameras before it cools off. With such success enveloping him, Robbins feels that he can afford to snipe genially at some fellow writers who have enjoyed loftier reputations. Norman Mailer, he says, lost his knack "because he ran into his belly." And as for Truman Capote: "He'd be all right if he took his finger out of his mouth...