Word: afforded
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They need not be so concerned about constantly trying to please the Faculty and Administration by wording their proposals just right. If any group at Harvard can afford to be honest, it is the SFAC...
Students are quick to impute vindictive motives to the deans. Frequently, however, discipline at Shaw seems to represent an honest effort to maintain Shaw's reputation in a largely Baptist community. Raleigh is a town where even the graffiti are pious--and Shaw cannot afford to make enemies...
Since schools which can't afford to build cyclotrons can still compete for historians (and everybody wants American historians), "It's a constant struggle to keep instructional quality in American history at a high level," Handlin says. This demand is partly responsible for the loss of two promising assistant professors of American history last year--Stephen Thernstrom, now a professor at Brandeis, and Gordon Wood, who went to the University of Michigan...
Deferred Profitability. The Century computers are adaptable for big companies that need highly sophisticated computers, but NCR will direct its main sales drive toward smaller businessmen -banks with less than $5,000,000 assets, even corner drugstores and service stations-who up to now thought that they could not afford a computer. NCR will either rent them one or else ser vice at one of its data-processing centers the records that shopkeepers compile on other NCR business machines...
...obviously difficult to make the first steps toward industrialization or implement more efficient agricultural techniques if a majority of the adult population can not read. "We just can not afford to write off the present generation," says Tanzania's President Nvrere, himself a teacher before he became a politician. "Those who are 15 today [compulsory schooling ends at 15] may still be members of the working population in the year 2000. Furthermore, the decisions affecting the future of the country-- its social structure, economy and politics--are not taken by children, whether they have gone to school...