Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already, he pointed out, the children of middle- or upperclass parents can escape the draft by going to college, while those from lower classes cannot afford a deferment...
...ride in dump trucks. Russia currently has fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell for $12,000. But even if a Soviet worker could afford a car, he would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious that it will be 15 or 20 years before Russia can develop a mass-production automobile industry and the necessary complex...
...Washington has never tried to tell them what or how to teach. "I believe in local control," says New York's Commissioner Allen. "But local control also means that you allow a community to be as poor as it wants to be-and we can't afford that any longer." California's Braden contends that "this concern over federal control is a bugaboo. We already have federal aid amounting to 4% of our school budget in California, and there's been no such attempt at control...
...tour of duty will end, and he will be free to leave Viet Nam and return to his wife and three daughters. But, he says, "I'd stay on for five years if the people here wanted me to." As he sees it, "We can't afford to lose another one like we lost Korea...
...ancient Egyptians loathed the changes that life brings. They sought an untroubled permanence in death. Pharaohs who could afford it built pyramids to shelter them in eternity. Others enshrined themselves differently in stone. One such was Sema-tawy-tefnakht, a blood relative of Pharaoh Psamtik I, who commissioned a stylized likeness of himself in rare and unfrugal alabaster, ordered it set in the temple of Amun at Karnak. Permanence, at least in alabaster, is not man's lot; as time passed, his statue was broken in half and thrown into a pit near the temple...