Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway somewhere between Owerri and Port Harcourt, frequently under fire from federal ack-ack guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about 1,000 tons of their powdered milk and eggs, baby food and other supplies have piled up in Fernando Po, awaiting reshipment. Meantime, Gowon's agents are reportedly trying to stop flights by offering the pilots as much...
...indeed be of some avail against Chinese intercontinental missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise new offensive weapons, such as multiple warhead rockets, than the means to shoot them down...
...pact than the Teamsters, who had settled for $30 a week last March. But the extra pay hardly seemed worth the idle hours and the anguish caused by the protracted strike. If the shutdown proved anything, beyond hu man obstinacy, it was that a modern U.S. city can ill afford the loss of its daily newspapers...
...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ruled that the state must provide free counsel for defendants who cannot afford a lawyer...
...that Aretha can afford to be in Detroit for up to two weeks out of a month, she retreats regularly to her twelve-room, $60,000 colonial house to be with her three sons (aged nine, eight and five) and wrestles with her private demons. She sleeps till afternoon, then mopes in front of the television set, chain-smoking Kools and snacking compulsively. She does bestir herself to cook?a pastime she enjoys and is good at?and occasionally likes to get away for some fishing. But most of her socializing is confined to the small circle of girlhood friends...