Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the new towns that have gone up so far have been purely private efforts, often backed by insurance firms or big industrial corporations that can afford the enormous outlays required to assemble large land parcels and install the roads, sewers, power lines and other unprofitable facilities that must be built before residents can begin moving...
...life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham women seeking abortions to London if they can afford that or, if they cannot, to the local back-street abortionist. Much the same thing is happening in Liverpool, England's third-largest city, which has a 40% Roman Catholic population and many anti-abortion doctors...
They are usually high baritones who take time off in their late 20s or 30s to ac quire a tenor's range and build up their voice. But careers move so fast now adays that few singers can afford to interrupt them. The result, says Melchior, is that "the breed has practically vanished." Most of the tenors who attempt these heroic roles are a bit jugendlich (youthful-sounding). Meantime, great dramatic sopranos like Birgit Nilsson are Isoldes in search of Tristans, and some of Wagner's finest music is scant ed in the repertory...
...afford one. While in many ways Playboy has become a bore-it seems more and more a triumph of distinctive packaging around a predictable product-the magazine sells 5,500,000 copies a month. The April issue will set an alltime record with almost $3,500,000 in advertising. The 17 Playboy Clubs and the Playboy resort hotels in Jamaica and Lake Geneva, Wis., have been so successful that plans are in the works for at least three new clubs, plus resorts in New Jersey, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Spain. Hefner's empire earned...
...beginner, it is well to remember that art-world habitues eat, sleep and breathe art, even though most of them cannot afford to cover their walls with it (especially the many art students and part-time art teachers). Thus they are accustomed to staring earnestly at even the looniest creations. Remarks like "Is this some sort of a put-on?" instantly brand anyone as an outsider...