Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner last week. "To poor-mouth, to say that we can't afford to make our cities livable, is just shocking...
Most of the anti-research pressure comes from professors in the liberal arts, who rarely land even an unclassified Government contract and thus can easily afford to complain that secret research is academically immoral. In addition to the argument that such research commits the university to aiding what they consider an unjust war, the anti-secrecy professors contend that classified contracts violate the spirit of free inquiry on which scholarship depends and that they make professors agents of the Government...
...Germany, Persia, Monaco and Montenegro, as well as assorted dukes and princes, not to mention such uncommon commoners as Italy's D'Annunzio, an American Vanderbilt, and French Premier Aristide Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even if he's a miser, when he opens his hand wide." "The moment of passion?" asked Colette. "No," replied Otero, "the moment when...
...Needleman said that fifty children would be brought here this year, and "as many more as we can afford" in the succeeding years...
While industry mergers, possibly into four regional groups, will probably cut costs and afford greater efficiency, Sir John admits that things wouldn't be looking up "if the oil companies had not been held to ransom by Mr. Nasser." The shutdown of the Suez Canal came as a boon for shipbuilders. The Japanese, who got their first boost with the 1956 closing of the canal, underbid the European builders by about 10% and soon had their order books bulging, with delivery dates stretching through 1971. Swan, Hunter & Tyne promised faster delivery, contracted to finish its first Esso supertanker...