Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the labor unions and the socialists (both in and out of Government) would scream, but it should be pointed out to them that the highly paid commission salesman is actually all that keeps the unions employed. If they don't sell it, no one can afford to produce...
...confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society that hates...
...interesting, too, that Massachusetts' wealthiest Corporation, easily able to afford payment on its own renovations, has accepted this money rather than requesting it be put to a more vital...
California's condemned men (and one woman), all of whom enjoyed a 17-month stay of execution while the cases were being decided, are sure to use the Anderson-Saterfield ruling for new petitions of their own. Under last week's decision, those who cannot afford lawyers are now entitled to have one provided for every plea. Thus, if the deathrow inmates do not get their sentences revised, at least they will avoid the gas chamber a while longer...
...dictated by economic necessity. Actually, the policy decisions are made, then the financial criteria are set up accordingly. For instance, administrators usually counter the arguments of reformers by claiming that this or that change "would be too expensive." Thus, we must raise tuition, but, they say, we "can't afford" to raise scholarships. Or, we can't invest part of the endowment in Roxbury because "we can't afford to lose all that interest." In hiding behind this economic determinism, the administration avoids confronting the reforms on their own merits...