Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distributed until it is too late for unsuccessful applicants to inquire elsewhere. A system to allow personnel officials to refer rejected applicants to one another would enlarge the pool of qualified job prospects for each agency. Appointment opportunities for each student would then be multiplied, and the agencies could afford greater selectivity in placing people in suitable positions. Nepotism made less essential to get jobs, would lose some of its appeal for well-qualified applicants...
...college and in the early years of a career and marriage, only the fairly well-to-do middle class partisan can afford to be active in a party organization, especially in a leadership capacity, which may require attendance at meetings and conventions often hundreds of miles from home. The more financially secure Republicans, not surprisingly, tend to be the more conservative ones...
...acres of prime land in an Atlanta suburb, is now planning an addition that will double the plant's size. The company owes its remarkable success to an ill wind that blew a lot of good. Its bank account was so low that it could not afford to buy an expensive piece of equipment that it needed to stay in business-and so began making it itself...
Most urban transit corporations, like the MTA and the New Haven Railroad, operate at huge losses and cannot afford the new facilities, the equipment and the more frequent schedules needed to attract more passengers. Consequently, revenue--and the level of equipment and service--continue to fall. The MTA carries far fewer people today than when it was formed in 1947, and it had a deficit last year of sixteen million dollars; the plight of the New Haven's commuter lines is well-known...
...pushed into Syria with 13,000 men, was stalemated by the Turks at Acre, and limped back to Cairo with only half his army. In the second battle of Abukir, the French slaughtered 9,000 Turks, but suffered almost 1,000 casualties, which the dwindling French forces could not afford. "A few more victories like this." boasted British Commodore Sir Sidney Smith to Nelson, "will annihilate the French army.'' It was never annihilated, but a year and a half after Napoleon returned to France, the French negotiated a truce and then withdrew...