Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resources into education. Even then, policy-makers are faced with an almost impossible choice. On the one hand, programs could concentrate on educating the young and attempt to wipe out the problem in one generation. On the other hand, most of the underdeveloped nations do not feel they can afford to wait a generation...
Tutors are often too minimally committed, Profit said. They work on a one-to-one basis, usually for only one hour per week, with the children of families who cannot afford to pay a tutor...
...gentlemanly association of agents who valiantly try to regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane and Meyer Levin, and he sells about 6,000 "properties" every year...
...report is proving dramatically to the nation what President Johnson has sought to play down. The country cannot afford both the war in Vietnam and a war on poverty. When the President appointed the commission (and called for a day of prayer) in the heat of the Newark riots it looked like a cheap way out. The Commission has shown that there is no cheap way out. Should the President shelve this report, having aroused and once more frustrated hopes, the country may well have to pay far more...
...difference between other dissidents--like the radicals--and me is that most of them, after they have separated themselves from the establishment and Harvard, find something else to identify with. The SDSer can afford to be an SDSer. It's a subculture with its own satisfactions. It may not be particularly useful politically but it satisfies the needs of its members who share the same separation from society. It sorta becomes a private club that has its own values and structure that are as alien to me as the Harvard system or the American system. They escaped from one society...