Word: afforded
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Real Eight. A few strikes have been made by casual skindivers, but the real payoff generally goes to companies that can afford elaborate treasure-hunting equipment such as electronic metal-detection gear, air compressors, sand pumps and power boats. Real Eight, Inc., a group of Vero Beach-based underwater operators that has so far sunk an estimated $150,000 in the Atlantic, recently made its first major strike: the wreck of what was probably one of a group of Spanish ships that foundered in a hurricane...
...spread belongs to Engineer Jack Ryan, 37, design consultant for Mattel, Inc., Los Angeles toy manufacturers, who lives with his wife and two daughters in a house he cannot afford to maintain. It is Actor Warner Baxter's old estate on a hilltop in Bel Air. For keeping the place in running order, between eight and twelve are privileged to call it home...
...delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration loyalists, the Dirksen rider...
Factory managers complained of the low quality of stepped-up training, which in practice left many students merely gawking at the machines that they supposedly were learning to operate. Most important of all, manpower experts pointed out that Russia's acute labor shortage could not afford prolonged schooling for all of the nation's high school students...
...market for computers is growing twice as fast as in the U.S. But despite its spectacular growth, the firm tries to maintain the stimulating atmosphere that its founders sought. Ideas bubble up from below with such frequency, says Norris, that "there are usually more plans than we can afford to finance." In an industry overshadowed by one huge competitor, Control Data claims to be the only firm other than IBM to be making money on its computers...