Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intelligence information has also been exchanged. Indeed, Cambodian troops have been involved in small skirmishes with Communist forces. For all that, Sihanouk is not likely to permit sizable allied units to cross the border and go after Communist sanctuaries or bomb inside Cambodia. Militarily or diplomatically, he can ill afford such a turnabout against the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, with whom he continues to maintain friendly relations as part of his balancing...
Several Peabody tenants told Wiggins that even if Harvard is losing money on the apartments it should keep the rents down. "People simply can't afford the increases. They'll have to move," Irene Dawson, one of the meetings four organizers, said. Arthur E. Yama, another one of the four, said that it is a question of priorities and of who should make policy decisions involving the allocation of Harvard's money...
Again, another alumni echoed the rabbi. "In 1934, we were too busy keeping our body and soul together; we couldn't afford the luxury of a conscience. You don't have to worry about where your next cup of coffee is coming from. I think that's good. I would have had a conscience too if I knew where my tuition was coming from...
...widened amazingly. His latest work, marked by a softer, subtler spectrum of colors, and currently on view at Manhattan's Lawrence Rubin Gallery, is so much in demand that the gallery is charging up to $28,500 per painting. The artist himself and his svelte wife Stephanie can afford to divide their time between a farm in Vermont and Manhattan, where he recently bought and is renovating a flophouse on the Bowery. Noland's style has been studied and imitated by fellow artists from Rome to British Columbia. Advertisements are apt to blossom with his latest hues...
...system thrives because it combines the incentive of personal ownership-the best goad man has yet devised to spur hard work-with the managerial talents of big business. For a fee (average: 3.8% of receipts), the typical franchise operative buys professional expertise he could otherwise scarcely afford-notably, cost controls, promotion and buying advice, and tested operating methods. The main advantage for the parent company is that franchising enables it to expand while putting up little of its own capital...