Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior in Shepard house said she could not afford to pay twice for each meal and would miss "the human experience of cooking." "I'm trapped," one sophomore squealed. "I live off-campus because I don't want to have anything to do with the dorms." An irate junior in Henry House shrieked, "I can't promise you anything printable...
...their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Viet Nam-and lose face throughout Asia-it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged down in wars that they can neither afford...
...This money will be shared out equally among the league teams, each of which will collect $1.2 million. The football teams, with crowds averaging 50,000 a game, have little fear of endangering their stadium attendance; CBS, which pulls about 13 million viewers for its N.F.L. games, could not afford to let the league go elsewhere. Says CBS's MacPhail, "They need us and we need them...
...buyers' market for CBS. For one thing, the National Football League could peddle television rights to an ad hoc sports network on a station by station basis (as has been done frequently for golf tournaments). For another, if NBC and ABC were offering football programming, CBS could hardly afford...
...nonexistant because the good guys are every bit as ruthless as the bad. Control, head of British intelligence, is well done by Cyril Cusack with his tea pots and easy acceptance of Cold War expediencies. He says to Leamas (Burton): "Our policies are peaceful, but our methods can't afford to be less ruthless than our enemies'--occasionally we have to do wicked things. The West is never the aggressor, but since the war our techniques have become very much the same. You can't be less wicked than your enemy just because your government is benevolent...