Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead). Viet Cong defections have increased to an unprecedented rate of 80 a day. So low is the guerrillas' morale that Tien Phong, the South Vietnamese Reds' party journal, suggested recently (see THE WORLD) that Viet Cong leaders may not be able to afford to concentrate only on battleground activities and might better focus on the "political struggle movement...
...Island, where the summer visitors used to be packed like subway straphangers, is so worried about falling attendance that it has shelled out $150,000 to restore the old allure. Where Murder Inc. once made lethal lead pay big dividends, the two-bit Gallo and Profaci mobs cannot even afford to fix the cops. Tough Tony Anastasio, the stevedore Caesar who ruled the waterfront for a generation before he died in 1963, has been succeeded by a Ciceronic son-in-law, Brooklyn College Graduate Anthony-never Tony-Scotto...
...their masters had. This deep psychological need to cut the figure of nationhood for all to see is responsible for the imposing government palaces, the parliamentary maces, the conspicuous Rolls-Royces, the Western-run "national" airlines and the gleaming chancelleries that exist in many young nations that can hardly afford to print money on their...
Once in business, a new nation must establish embassies around the globe and send a mission to the U.N.-tasks that frequently exhaust both their finances and talent. Occasionally a new nation admits that it just cannot afford the overhead; although it is a U.N. member, Gambia has no U.N. mission, told the Assembly it might not be able to afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy...
...have the power within the system; the problem is that too often those with the political power do not use it in the way that those he calls "the PBH-minded people" would if they were able to realize its importance and get it. "We can no longer afford the dichotomy between the machine politicans and the top thinkers and organizers. If the top people don't conceive of politics as their place, then the machines get the power by default...