Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before long, 35 artists had made nylon flags to fly outdoors and felt banners to hang indoors like tapestries. So far, shows of their work have traveled to 30 U.S. museums and galleries. Like graphics, the banners are signed and numbered in limited editions, and a collector can afford in felt what would cost him four times more in oils...
...self-made personality," she says. The product of a straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford to collect shoes (70 pairs) and furs (14, including six mink), drive a Maserati and learn to fly. Best of all, having been discovered abroad, she finds herself big box office at home...
...substantially perpetuated this dilemma according to Weaver. He said that a plan which facilitates integration is often the least beneficial policy for securing good, low-income housing. He pointed out that it is primarily upper and middle-class Negroes who push for integration, while the lows affluent cannot afford this luxury...
...rises were especially painful, and especially necessary, during the recessions of 1957-1962 when people could least afford to pay. And as even these increased taxes often failed to keep pace with rising costs, people were asked to vote themselves higher local taxes...
...telegrams to President Johnson, he bluntly refused to provide protection to the marchers. He reckoned that it would cost $400,000 and require 6,171 men to police the march route, demanded "federal civil authorities" to do the job because Alabama simply could not afford to. Obviously, Wallace was throwing to the President the onus of having to call out the Alabama National Guard. The President accepted the challenge and from the LBJ Ranch issued the orders that sent the Guard onto the parade route. "Responsibility for maintaining law and order in our federal system properly rests with state...