Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resignation in Parliament. The new policy is unrealistic, he claimed, for the 2,000 million pound limit is arbitrary and inadequate for any real defense role. Instead of maintaining an equivocal "in-between" policy, Britain should effectively finance her international police force or else honestly admit that she cannot afford to be a world power. He publicly deplored the inevitable subjection of Britain's forces to American foreign policy leadership...
...given tacit approval to an oath many of its Faculty find reprehensible. Members of the Faculty have refused to sign the oath before, but have always capitulated when the Corporation suggested they were endangering their positions. Few Faculty members, especially junior faculty who feel hostile toward the oath, can afford to put their jobs on the line when the threat to academic freedom is unspecified and the President and Fellows offer them little support...
...proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience of the electronic...
...Boston's Roxbury slum to be their guests. When Clark decided to join the Selma march, parishioners chipped in to help pay his expenses; after he returned, they took the lead in setting up a Fair Housing Committee in Dover to prepare for the day when Negroes might afford to live there. Clark is "a very up and doing young man," says Miss Amelia Peabody, 76, the town's social leader. "I think he's just fine...
...bargaining cannot resume until the EEC fixes its farm prices, because the U.S. insists that farm as well as industrial products be included. Europe is under pressure to move swiftly, because the law enabling the U.S. to negotiate expires July 1, 1967. Meantime, the Germans insist that they cannot afford to pay the EEC treasury big farm subsidies, which will chiefly enrich French farmers, unless their industries can profit from Kennedy Round tariff reductions. Moreover, all Six, plus Britain and Switzerland, insist that the U.S. must scrap its present method of setting certain import duties before the Kennedy Round resumes...