Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Educational program. We have enough definitions of what we want General Education in the sciences to do; we have had almost nothing to say about whether it can be done in the contradictory ways that now mar the internal logic of the program. Harvard can little afford to lag here where she once...
...brotherly love is wearing a bit thin in Alabama these days. And among the nine Congressmen running for eight seats, Boykin was both the oldest and the richest; many Alabamans apparently figured that he was the one who could most afford to retire to private life. In 14 past elections, folks had remembered the ebullient fellow who had hauled water for construction gangs at eight, become a business success at 16, a near millionaire at 21. But now Boykin's was simply a case of love's labor's lost...
...hours for a pound of butter, as against 42 minutes in the U.S. The Russian must work four hours for a pound of meat, as against 46 minutes in the U.S. The political consequences of these figures, at home and abroad, might be vast. They suggest that Russia cannot afford to produce both guns and butter. They also show that the revolutionary regime, whose basic appeal was to the "masses" and their hunger for a better life, today still cannot fully satisfy that hunger in its own land...
Fiat, which had long sheltered behind a tariff wall so high that even rich Italians could scarcely afford a foreign car, greeted the Common Market by slashing its prices at home and doubling its dealer force in the rest of Europe. Volkswagen, which before the advent of the Common Market regarded France and Italy as lost causes, now has plans for 120 French dealerships, and by relentlessly efficient servicing is slowly overcoming the longstanding Italian sneer that the beetle is brutta (ugly...
...bothers Artist Kelly ho more than such treatment bothered him in the past. "There is a lot of fun to be found in politics," says he, "and I always do what I find to be funny at the time." Besides, any man with 612 newspapers on his string can afford to lose a couple now and then-especially since the defectors almost always return to the fold...