Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure of bringing into the presidency one who has had full opportunity of knowing all the problems facing the Government. The only individual who can make the decision that a President is disabled is the Vice President. He cannot be excused if he does not act. The U.S. cannot afford to go ahead in these days without someone who's capable of making a decision and ready to do it. It is important that these two people be close to each other...
...golfer supports a costly habit. Last year, playing on seven thou sand golf courses, he lost or disfigured 60 million golf balls, invested more than $110 million in golf equipment and, if he had the cash left, took lessons to improve his game. If he could not afford an average $15 an hour for personal advice from a pro, the addicted duffer got the word anyway - in the nation's newspapers. Season after season, it is dispensed by experts in the sports sections of the daily press...
...school ('62), Goldstein matched the school's highest average in 30 years but failed to get a Supreme Court clerkship on graduation. Grabbed by a prestigious Philadelphia law firm, he later got a second chance to clerk and accepted because "I couldn't afford...
They stored diamonds in milk cans in South Africa during the Depression -who could afford them? But now more than 40 million American women wear diamonds, and last year Americans bought about $400 million worth of the precious stones. Last week, at their biennial convention in Manhattan, members of the World Federation of Diamond Exchanges predicted that U.S. diamond sales would rise at least another 10% this year, and they looked forward to continued scarcity. Says Amsterdam's Louis Asscher, former chairman of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association: "There won't be any queuing up at Tiffany...
...complain that A.T.&T., which owns all its equipment and only rents it to subscribers, will not permit them to hook up antique phones, and that it charges them 500 a month extra for an unlisted number in New York City and Philadelphia; Cinemactor Tony Randall, who can well afford it, has dodged the charge by listing his number under a phony name, Irvine W. Tishman. As in many another company, A.T.&T.'s officers also are getting more and more harassment at annual meetings. Kappel has special controls behind the rostrum at which he stands...