Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's A2? Flu viruses have the exasperating capability to "drift" each year, changing characteristics to varying degrees and accreting new "armor" against existing vaccines. So far, the virus "drift" does not appear significant. "Present influenza vaccines," says the Communicable Disease Center's Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, "should afford adequate protection since they contain A-2 strains similar to the ones we have isolated...
...being built along the DMZ be effective if the Communists can end-run around it in Laos. At some point, and last week's events indicate that it may be sooner rather than later, the U.S. may decide that the idea of sanctuary is a luxury that it cannot afford, and take off after the Communists, borders...
...many viewers got the feeling that perhaps fame had at last gone to the Beatles' heads. Concluded the Daily Express: "The whole boring saga confirmed a long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas TV? You could hardly call the Queen's speech a gasser...
...Dahomey cannot pay for the large quantities of French meats, wines, cheeses and "Gervais" ice cream that are normally among the prized imports of Dahomey's elite. Nor can its poor people, who live mostly in thatched huts or in bamboo huts set on stilts in muddy lagoons, afford the $3,000,000 presidential palace that its rulers have built, or the four-lane, sodium-lit boulevard that runs along Cotonou's seaside edge into an empty field of sand and weeds...
...opera, frequently attends performances in New York with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, another buff. On business trips, he likes to get up a Cajun card game known as Bouree, a variety of pitch in which pots get increasingly more costly. He seldom loses at Bouree, but he can afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses. He is a devoted family man, but he is so anxious to keep his personal life out of the public eye that he does not even list his wife...