Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role is essentially to urge other people to make the effort," Brooks says. This means that the Corporation will often accept risks of loss where other businesses could not afford to. Depending on the situation, the Corporation may or may not charge interest. And, if it sees "important community benefits," it is even willing to incure a loss. In short, Brooks described the Corporation as a catalyst to change within the community, letting the community decide the direction of change for itself...
...eminent visiting Frenchman was being shown through the Art Institute of Chicago by its then president, Chauncey McCormick, when he asked in astonishment: "How can you possibly afford all these marvelous impressionist pictures?" The proud response was: "We do not buy them; we inherit them from our grandmothers...
...Financial report disclosed by Mrs. Bunting indicates that Radcliffe could afford to let 5% of Radcliffe's senior class live in apartments if they helped to pay for administrative expenses...
...commitments, last year gave $630 million in foreign aid. For most countries, their money is their own, to use as they wish abroad. But the British pound, as a reserve currency, is used much like an international money by traders and central banks the world over. The U.S. can afford to let its money be used by others; Britain, needing every penny it mints, no longer can, but has long insisted on continuing to try. The result is that when the Bank of England is driven to the wall to defend sterling, it may discover that as much...
Wehner and Socialist ministers in the coalition defended their actions as necessary for Germany's welfare, promised to press hard for Socialist goals when the country can better afford them. Brandt managed to defuse the conference by warning the Christian Democrats not to expect the Socialists to be "meek as lambs." "I call the Grand Coalition neither a marriage of love nor a shotgun marriage," he said, "but a question of practical politics." After that, the Socialist delegates departed, considerably meeker themselves...