Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, a dwindling union that takes in annual dues totaling $612,000, was bringing on troubles it could ill afford. Its outlaw strike against eight U.S. railroads elicited a contempt citation from U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, who ordered the brotherhood to meet a return-to-work deadline or be fined $25,000 a day. Only after the four-day walkout ground to a halt last week did the full magnitude of the railway union's troubles come into focus...
...large slice of London's 2,400,000 young adults and working teen-agers live in Chelsea, Earl's Court and South Kensington, the residential districts roughly comparable to Manhattan's upper East Side. While the models and ad agency execs can afford quaint private houses, with black-painted doors and tidy flower boxes, the lesser lights pack themselves into shared flats (three or four to an apartment) that cost a minimum of $30 a month, or nest in "bedsitters" (furnished rooms, $10 a week). "Youth has become emancipated," says Mick Jagger, "and the girls have become...
...concentration's strength and weakness is its attempt to serve a wide spectrum of needs and interests. It must spread its ability and effort a little thinly, but at the same time is able to draw on such a wide range of courses and men that it can afford to emphasize the best...
...highest court has authorized law students to appear in lower courts and to defend indigents in cases involving less than 2½ years' imprisonment. At Boston University, law students now get classroom credit for courtroom practice in Roxbury, a predominantly Negro slum where 70% of defendants cannot afford lawyers. Lest a student prove unequal to his job, a veteran teacher-advocate is always on hand to rescue the client. Every law student needs such training, says B.U.'s Assistant Law Dean Robert L. Spangenberg. "The liberty of his future clients is too precious a commodity to be squandered...
...article on the prison sentence and fine imposed on Timothy Leary [March 18] presents only one side of this complex debate. Research on consciousness-expansion drugs, which are safer than alcohol and less addicting than nicotine, must be allowed to continue. We cannot afford to legislate out of existence such powerful educational tools as the psychedelic drugs promise...