Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next decade, at least, the logical solution to the farm problem -if logic is ever applied to it-may well lie in a slow, carefully phased, commodity-by-commodity lowering of price supports. At the same time, the Great Society should be able to afford a larger share of its anti-poverty funds for rural America, to provide jobs and training programs so that those who prefer to stay on the land are not forced into the cities. All this, coupled with direct, market-price purchases of commodities for the Food for Peace Program by the Government-rather than siphoning...
...even keener because he felt that Johnson was throwing away a rare opportunity to move toward a freer market. His reasoning: the record 1965 crop was already a virtual certainty, and only proved again that the present control system was unworkable in reducing production. Thus, he figured, Johnson could afford to experiment with fewer controls and if it did not work out, could not be held accountable at the polls for not having made an honest effort to solve the farm problem...
...down-to-earth reminder that with an election coming up, the Administration could hardly afford to let wheat prices fall to $1 a bushel. The farmers took Shuman at his word and resoundingly defeated the plan. Ten months later, Congress passed a voluntary program with the $2 support price...
...than for competitors' cars, are a hangover from the days of George Romney, who let labor have its way as long as it did not impede the production of fast-selling cars. Now that American Motors' sales and profits are down, however, the company can no longer afford to be inefficient, is demanding greater productivity from its workers...
...often," Attorney General Katzenbach told the Miami convention, "the poor man sees the law as something which garnishees his salary, which repossesses his refrigerator, which evicts him from his house, which cancels his welfare, which binds him to usury, or which deprives him of his liberty because he cannot afford bail. Small wonder then that the poor man does not respect the law." Small wonder, too, that the present system has tended to produce "lay intermediaries"-the very specter that appalls the bar. And as people seek legal advice from union officials, real estate agents and even neighborhood notaries, pressure...