Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, all 23 Ford plants in Britain have been paralyzed. Every day, the company has lost almost $5,000,000 in production and Britain has lost about $2,400,000 in exports. Britain can ill afford the drain, especially since its trade deficit widened from $214 million in January to $338 million in February. Ford assembly lines in West Germany and Belgium are also pinched. The lack of British-made components has turned production schedules upside down. Ford executives have hinted that they may drop their expansion plans in Britain and divert some of their operations to calmer shores...
...says he's now financially independent enough to afford his own state in art instead of his customers...
City Hall is different. It is modest. You can afford to be, when you have a history like Boston's. Names like Lowell, Cabot, Lodge, Peabody, Adams or Quincy have a certain presence which does not have to be heightened by skyscrapers or polished with chrome...
...become commonplace to note that the Senate could not afford to lose a man like Gruening. In reality, it probably won't make that much difference. The Senate long ago learned to ignore his simple, earnest pleas. His condemnation of the war was too unreasonable: he denounced not only the policy employed, but the very goals that the policy sought to achieve. You can deal with a man so long as he's willing to state his position within the terms that you lay out for him; but if he refuses to do that, there's nothing left...
...today will be the professors and the department chairmen of tomorrow on whom we and our successors will depend to supply us with our "input" of talented students and to consume our "output" of certified scholars. Because of this they are an absolutely vital potential resource, and we cannot afford to neglect them...