Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will spark a hot debate between those who favor increasing the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam at the expense of Great Society programs, and those who, like Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart, feel that "we have two wars on our hands, and we can't afford to lose either." As Republicans press for cuts in domestic spending, there is bound to be a series of bitter "guns or butter" appropriations battles. Among the more vulnerable targets for cuts: the space program, the Appalachian Regional Development Act, the Area Redevelopment program, the housing bill's rent-subsidy...
...empty offices, unanswered telephones, vacant theater seats, unused barber chairs, empty streets where there should have been crowds. An extraordinary number of people somehow managed to get to work, but day after day went by without pay for thousands of far-distant clerks, secretaries and laborers who could scarcely afford the loss. Merchants complained that they were losing millions every day. There was no doubt that the strike was damaging to business, but no one would really know exactly how great a financial loss the crisis had caused until monthly sales figures came...
...brink of a transit strike dozens of times-and backed down, each time at the last minute. Quill and the city's Democratic mayors usually have worked out a cozy deal in advance, compromising between what Quill felt he needed and what the city felt it could afford. Nonetheless, Quill was always allowed to run through his biennial charade, dramatically announcing at the last moment a settlement that had actually been agreed on days earlier. Naturally, no one took too seriously Quill's blustering about a transit strike: people had heard that threat too often...
...Cabinet was suave conservative Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 39. Giscard's severe anti-inflationary policies were what put the crimp in private expansion and public spending-or at least so the voters thought. He remains an aide whom De Gaulle can ill afford to antagonize, for his 35-man Independent Republican party gives De Gaulle's U.N.R. its ten-man majority in the National Assembly. Two of his Independent Republicans were given portfolios...
...pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford to hire themselves. "Without these supplemental services, we would be lost," says Houston Chronicle News Editor Dan Cobb, who subscribes to three. "They are bringing about a revolution in the presentation of news...