Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which controls most of Metropolitan Boston's riverside parks-took the action after Somerville officials had attacked the proposed lease of the land to the yacht club. Arguing that this city could not afford the loss of the recreation land, Rep. Vincent Pire (D-Som.) said, "Harvard should stay on the banks of the Charles and leave the Mystic River alone...
...liberals are disposed to an apocalyptic vision of America as a runaway, can cerous technocracy, Agnew's audiences are suggestible to his appeals to a "Love It or Leave It" America. In Harrisburg. Pa., two weeks ago. Agnew attacked the more militant dissidents as "vultures" and declared: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." What did he mean by separation? Expulsion? Concentration camps...
...that, as white parents continue withdrawing their children to private schools, they will become increasingly reluctant to vote bond issues and taxes for the South's public schools, which already receive less support than the schools of any other region. One ironic result: poor whites who cannot afford private schools may get a worse education...
Since the Nameless is run entirely on donations from the audience, it cannot afford the $30 to $75 to rent a film each week, "The movies were just not paying their way," Feintuch said...
That the cities cannot by themselves afford the price of a viable urban community has been a recurrent theme in the Lindsay camp, both in the primary last June and in the campaign leading to Lindsay's election...