Word: afforded
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...profits from abroad v. 17.5% for P. & G. All of this has created a certain air of frustration among P. & G.'s dedicated employees, who believe with P. & G. Chairman (and former Defense Secretary) Neil McElroy that "in a competitive market like ours, you just can't afford to hold anything back." If the FTC wins its case, P. & G. may have to learn to hold back...
Wilson, while convinced that Britain should remain a worldwide power, feels that it cannot afford its growing defense expenditures ($4.3 billion this year), and would like a firm commitment on the U.S. contribution to joint military projects-notably a new chain of island bases east of Suez (TIME, Nov. 19). Johnson, for his part, will invite British cooperation in providing an alternative to the proposed NATO multilateral force (MLF) of missile-firing surface ships, a plan that sank under the weight of allied disagreement. Johnson hopes instead that Britain will turn over its Po laris submarines, now abuilding...
...jeopardize him because he can not afford...
...press and public, review items often cause alarm. But they consist largely of unevaluated "raw data"; many of the cases, said Dr. Shaw, have not been checked to make sure whether the patient was indeed taking the drug named, or taking other drugs with it. The FDA, which cannot afford to investigate every case, keeps the names of doctors and patients confidential. This information, suggested Dr. Shaw, should be given to manufacturers-who have the means and the motivation to ferret out the facts...
...class periods are broken into 20-minute units that can be combined to fit instructional needs. The end of a period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers" and "learning laboratories" where supplementary materials are available...