Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest margin (430,479 votes) of any candidate in state history, bringing with him nearly 100 new Democrats, most without previous legislative experience or special loyalties to the Governor. He hoped they would stay in line. "In this hour of unlimited promise," he said, "no lowan can afford to be antibusiness, antilabor, anti-farmer, anti-government or anti-progress." He also meant anti-Hughes...
...process, the cost of the 140 planes needed rose from $1.1 billion to nearly $2.25 billion-some $14 million apiece. Though two prototypes are already flying and 20 others are near completion, Wilson and his Defense Minister Denis Healey began to wonder if Britain could afford such a luxury weapons system...
...presumably benefit all Americans of a radical persuasion. Personally, it strikes me that most American Negroes would be very happy to settle for a nice home in an integrated, middle-class suburb, if only white society would allow them to buy the home, and to make enough money to afford it. To solve these dilemmas must be the task of whites in the North (and, eventually, in the South as well). As for the Negroes, their task is of a primarily political nature, as Miss Lake remarked in her article. In the North I think Negroes should concentrate on developing...
Work on the address began weeks ago, but Johnson is apparently still working overtime on it. He is not expected to repeat any of the themes of the State of the Union speech. As one Washingtonian put it. "He can't afford to miss badly with this one, because of the inevitable comparison with Kennedy...
...Poor to Pay. IDA gives credit only to countries so poor that they can not afford to pay even the World Bank's modest 5.5% interest rate, let alone the higher rates of conventional lending institutions. It charges no interest, gets only three-fourths of 1% annual service fee to cover its administrative costs...