Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason: A write-in vote is only a protest, and if protest could bring freshness to Massachusetts politics, the state would enjoy the most efficient and principled government in the nation. When the choice lies between evils of degree, the voter cannot afford to hobble his sense of discernment with disgust...
...appointed by the Supreme Court to represent Florida Convict Clarence Earl Gideon in his milestone battle to establish that any man who faces trial but cannot afford to pay a lawyer is entitled to counsel, even in state courts, for anything beyond a petty offense...
According to top China experts, Peking can afford to spend a maximum of $500 million a year on all phases of its nuclear program - unless drought or floods force it to spend hard currency to buy food. At this rate, it might take China between five and ten years to produce 30 bombs small enough to be lifted by an airplane or missile. But China has no long-range bombers or missiles, and to create the air fleet that would deliver the bombs would take $10 billion to $20 billion and between 15 and 20 years-unless outside help comes...
...early to conclude that Mao had won the struggle with Russia, which reaches beyond ideology into economic and national rivalry and beyond that into the whole question of Communism's future. But as the radiation glow faded in the Sinkiang wastelands, Mao Tse-tung could afford to gloat over his bomb-and over the sudden departure of his hated fraternal enemy Nikita Khrushchev, whom he had once scorned as the "laughingstock of the world...
Once an apartment was a place that people lived in because they could not afford anything else. Its major advantage was that it was usually near the middle of things. But the notion of what an apartment is has gradually changed. The change began with the garden apartments, which offered a house and garden for those who could not afford a garden of their own-or at least, did not want to have one to take care of. Garden apartments ringed cities across the land, from Dallas and Houston in the Southwest, and St. Louis and Detroit in the Midwest...