Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquor store owner having license trouble): Afford the right lawyer? How much would that...
...scientist defends what he believes the United States to be doing at the disarmament conference in Geneva as a useful and effective maneuver in the cold war. "We can afford the luxury of spending the top ten per cent of our Gross National Product on armaments," he said. "The Soviet Union can't do this and increase consumer services at the same time. It just isn't rich enough...
...made more jobs available. But it did so, in part, by forcing students who had found jobs through Student Employment (no fee) to work through HSA instead (paying a fee). If I understand the Dean's argument, this change was justified because the non-profit Employment Office could not afford the staff to be as "aggressive" as HSA. But the economics implicit here would close the Employment Office instantly and transfer all its operations to HSA, thus saving the University the cost of the entire Employment Office. Furthermore, in directing inquires from the Employment Office to HSA, the Manager...
...fifth share, which brings him about $400 a year in income. A tenant, Arnold Gills, operates the farm "on halves," and Freeman carefully refrains from offering him any advice. The farm is not enrolled in any of Freeman's production-control programs. "I can't afford it," says Gills. "I got to grow...
...leather industry that supplies the shoemen cannot afford to be unconcerned; 15 years ago they lost practically all of their leather sole business to synthetic Neolite. "If Du Pont succeeds in getting a few high-priced distributors to market synthetic shoes," says Boston Tanner Emery Huvos, "then we're licked. The prestige will get them the volume market, and that's what they're looking for." To try to prevent that, Leather Industries of America has doubled this year's advertising budget to $2,000,000 to tout the virtue of good old-fashioned leather...