Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subcommittee on Mather House has presented its final report to the Committee on Houses, urging that any senior who wishes to move off-campus be permitted to make the change, if the University can afford...
...joined the Peace Corps because we thought it would afford us a means of helping developing nations without imposing the United States' political and cultural values on them. We assumed that the Peace Corps reflected the belief in a pluralistic world for which John Kennedy stood: that therefore its work would be the antithesis of the American colonialism that the rest of the world both fears and resents...
...There are undoubtely those among this group who are perfectly healthy. Most are at least as sturdy as the Southern farm boy who has just enlisted or the Black from one of our many ghettos who has just been drafted. The only difference is that the poor can't afford to have their ills diagnosed and recorded; they don't know that a migraine headache might get them out of the Army, they only know that they don't feel good sometimes. Most medical deferments, and almost all psychological deferments, are a luxury of the rich...
President Johnson's ensuing actions were a final-and belated-admission that the U.S. cannot, in fact, easily afford both guns and butter. Still, the President's bitter medicine contains no long-range or permanent remedies for the payments deficit. Temporarily effective though it should be, last week's package of controls attacks selected symptoms rather than the fundamental causes. At an unknowable price, it buys extra time for the nation to cope with the real problems: inflation arid the massive federal deficit...
...Pocket is so gruesome that it often seems faintly ridiculous. In a decaying country house lives a blind woman with two epileptic teen-age sons and a neurotic daughter-all supported by her oldest son, who has a job in a nearby town and wishes he could afford to get married. It looks as if his restrictive responsibilities may be over at last when his brother Alessandro loads the rest of the family in a car and sets out to drive them all over a cliff. At the last minute he chickens out, but he eventually manages to shove...