Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With four-fifths of the country owned by Englishmen or their clients after 1662, a small farmer could not afford even to think about sex. Marriage for him was early death. And he clung to a religion that often tended to confirm his caution. The 18th century priests, trained in the flesh-hating Jansenist seminaries of France, gave him the rationale for what he had to do anyway. It was not a specifically Catholic matter. Protestant churches in Scotland and Wales, countries also under the British thumb, were equally repressive...
There were unmistakable signs last week of shifting stances both in Washington and in Saigon. Thieu is considering avenues to compromise that he cannot afford to discuss publicly for fear of alienating important hard-line factions among his political supporters. He again let it be known that he could agree to holding elections in South Viet Nam before 1971, the year they are now scheduled to take place, if that would speed a negotiated end to the war. The N.L.F. called for such special elections in its ten-point proposal early last month in Paris...
...action in Yugoslavia than in any other country of Eastern Europe. Newsstands and bookshops offer Yugoslavs easy access to Western publications without fear of reprisals. There is, of course, censorship; certain books, like Milovan Djilas' works, are not available, and the press is controlled. Yugoslavs, if they can afford it, can travel abroad freely, in the East or West. Conversely, Westerners, whether tourists, businessmen or journalists, gain ready admission to Yugoslavia. By scrapping Communism's harshest dictates, the Yugoslavs have created a thriving market-oriented Socialist economy in which the workers share profits and managerial responsibility...
...possible 4) and sees business as a steppingstone to his ultimate goal: politics. The treasurer of the California Young Republicans, he worked in the Goldwater campaign. Barr, who also has a law degree, plans to spend the next ten years making enough money so that he can afford full-time politics. Still, he turned down a $25,000 offer from a consulting company and instead accepted $15,000 and commissions from a new firm that specializes in underwriting small and medium-sized issues. "I don't want to conform," says Barr, who likes the freedom that a smaller company...
...civil institution can afford to be magnanimous--more than that: if any civil institution is compelled by its character and purpose, by its very name, to be magnanimous, it is surely the university. And the recommendations we are asked to approve, and the other recommendations for severance which do not require our approval, are not, it seems to me, magnanimous; not large-minded and broad-viewed. They are insensitive to the full and unique character of the troubles of the past spring and the specific offenses they are addressed...