Word: afforded
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...James MacGregor Burns, Williams College, author of Presidential Government: "The Eisenhower Administration was a fine consolidating Administration, with all the benefits that come from consolidation and with all its problems. But the serious questions are whether then, or at any time, we can afford consolidation. The greatest thing about Eisenhower was that he did not turn back the clock...
Almost every parochial-school system has had to raise its tuition rates to the limit of parental tolerance, and even beyond. They are caught in a viciously accelerating cycle: as public-school taxes and parochial-school tuition go up, many parents decide that they cannot afford both. They simply transfer their children to the public school, increasing the tax burden as well as the cost per pupil for those remaining in the parochial schools. In addition, some parents switch to public schools because they are not happy with the uneven quality of parochial education...
...society. Parochial schools keep the average per-pupil cost to an estimated national average of $300-less than a half of the $625 it costs to educate a child in public schools. It is no bargain for the taxpayer when a Catholic parent decides that he can no longer afford the $100 or more in yearly tuition that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official in New York estimated that transfers into public schools will add $30 million to the state's education bill this year, perhaps $50 million next year. If all nonpublic schools in Wisconsin...
...split evenly between partisans of the plane and opponents. This gives the decisive vote to the chairman, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe, who is due by April 1 to forward a recommendation to the President for final decision. Says Volpe: "I don't see how the U.S. can afford not to go ahead with this ship. I don't want to see our country play second fiddle...
...delay gave opponents of the SST time to rally their forces. They question whether the Government can afford to underwrite 85% of a $2 billion plane at a time when urban needs are so pressing. Lately, some top airline executives, worried about how they are going to pay the bill for-and then fill with passengers-the $5 billion of subsonic jets already on order, have quietly suggested delaying the project. Other objectors argue that the SST will be the noisiest and most nonproductive luxury transport ever built. In reply, General William Maxwell, the FAA's Director...