Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schilling inadvertently solved the problem earlier this season when muscle injuries forced him from the lineup. But the sophomore infielder is back, and his huge glove and tiny bat pose a familiar problem for Manager Mike Higgins. If he can't afford to have Schilling out of the lineup, he can barely afford to have him in it either...
Because these men are professionals, they can afford to be liberal about civil rights: a rise in the Negro's economic standard will not effect them directly. Besides, their liberality is not the kind that will cause any changes. After several weeks of negotiating with a group example, town's Negro leaders, for example, they recommended to the City Council that a bi-racial council be established to discuss possibilities for fuller Negro employment. The suggestion had a double edged safeguard. If the City Council were rash enough to act upon it--which seemed to the Chamber highly unlikely...
...organization is severely hampered by its lack of funds, space, coordination and experience. Few of its members can afford to give enough time or money its structure, and the way its meetings are conducted, stem directly from the only two kinds of Institution these Negroes have even known: the church, and a rather formal kind of town meeting democracy...
McLain does not think his "villages" are in competition with Webb's "cities," which, he says, "are for the more affluent elderly who can more than afford to pay for them. Our aim is to create low-cost, quality rentals, and at the same time, like Sun City, give the old folks a good, busy life. It's got to be like a long vacation on a cruise ship-never a dull moment...
...returned. To persuade soft-drink manufacturers that their ads ought to feature happy citizens swigging their soda pop from cans, both American Can and Continental Can offered an advertising rebate of 5? per case to those who switched to cans. Since local bottlers might not be able to afford their own canning equipment, American Can financed strategically placed canneries across the country...