Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attribute stories to a "high-level source" in the White House, the State Department or the Pentagon when it is obvious to most readers who that high-level source is. In an era of instant communication, neither the President of the U.S. nor any other high-level source can afford the dangers of hasty misinterpretation. Information that has been passed along not-for-attribution can always be explained or denied later...
...also Mary who generated much of the family interest in medical research. Early in their courtship, Las ker had asked Mary what she wanted most to do in life. She replied: "I want to push the idea of health insurance Most people can't afford adequate medical care. And I want to help promote research in cancer, tuberculosis and other major diseases...
...offer, but U.S. executives soon find that it takes more than that to get along with their European help. Not that European labor is necessarily more demanding or obstinate than U.S. labor: it is merely different. The U.S. firm that wants to make a success on the Continent cannot afford to ignore the differences...
...Morris was invited to a costume party and decided to go as a lion. Unable to afford a ready made costume he fashioned his own out of old yellow bedspreads. For the mane, Morris ingeniously dyed a watercress and some lamb's wool gold and wired them together. His costume was perfect except that when he moved embarrassing squeaking noises issued from his mane. Morris telephoned his friend George for advice...
...Sartre means, and then it generally becomes apparent that he could have said it far more clearly. Desan says in The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, "Sartre's book is badly constructed; indeed, it is uselessly obscure and interminable. Our author is definitely at the point where he can afford to be non-conformist to the extreme, leaving just enough intelligibility so that the conformist might attempt the struggle to understand...