Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the world's most powerful is bent on destroying it at the first chance. It cannot be proved, of course, that a different U.S. attitude would have produced a different mood in China. But as Richard Nixon observed during last year's campaign: "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation...
Surveying his own expanding middle and those of his 14 top men, Lowe's President Edward Lowe, 48, found that they were collectively 120 lbs. in excess. Last month he started ICATLYC, the "I Can't Afford to Lose You Club." Each member was weighed in by the company doctor, and a goal-his optimum weight-was set. Each was given as many weeks as he had pounds to lose. If he makes his specified weight by that deadline, he is paid 1½ of his annual salary; the bonus will be renewed every year for as long...
...administration offered another, not unrelated, justification: Harvard can not financially afford to do it any other way, and is therefore forced to rely on those people who can afford both to pay for their own education and to contribute heavily later on in life. If this claim is true--if in fact Harvard cannot afford to lower its fees--then there is little hope for a more heterogeneous student body in the future. Obviously, our attention should shift to the University's financial state...
...CONCLUDE that Harvard could indeed afford to lower its fees. A condsensed form of out argument follows. It shows that...
Though he could not afford to answer Saxbe's advertising campaign, Gilligan still would have won but for the disastrous returns from hometown Cincinnati. He had expected to come out about even there, but he ended up losing two to one. The morning daily had contributed by running a front-page editorial which claimed that a vote for Gilligan would be a vote for every arsonist and rapist in the state...