Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights as the killing and bombing continues. How does a vote for HHH show a concern for "social justice and human rights" when this man has voiced unequivocal support for the policies which divide and cripple us at home and shame us abroad? To say that "Affluent intellectuals can afford to care about nothing but the war" is to overlook the fact that the war encompasses a number of issues--the most obvious of which are the concerns of social justice and human rights which Mr. Betts seems so troubled about...
...indulge their own bitterness by refusing to back Humphrey against Nixon and Wallace, on the fantastic grounds that there is negligible difference between Humphrey and his right-wing opponents, destroy any pretensions they may have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights. Affluent inttellectuals can afford to care only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar Chavez. I dare them to tell black...
...against such tough competition, Harvard couldn't afford to gamble on the same play again. "The reason we had to take a strong start was to keep from falling back early in the race," Parker said...
...could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer at Nha Be, "we'd be up to our neck. Estimates are that it would take anywhere from two to six months to reopen the channel. The U.S. command simply cannot afford to have that happen, since eight to ten large supply ships chug up the channel every...
...asked the State Department to refrain from stepping in actively. One reason for the company's restraint was that Peru accounts for less than 1% of its total crude-oil production. The company also figures that Peru, which has to import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually offer IPC a contract to run the oilfields, much as it has been...