Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knack for producing exquisite china. The translucent, ornately decorated product commands capitalist prices: a twelve-place dinner service in the famed blue and white "onion" pattern sells for around $900, and more elaborate patterns can run $4,500 and up. And even though few, if any, East Germans can afford to spend that kind of money, the demand for Meissen still outstrips the supply. The china is one of the country's most valuable export items...
...latest American step is a strategic error. Even "thin" U.S. systems may encourage the Russians to thicken theirs. The U.S. would feel compelled, no doubt, to keep up--and speed up what has been a fairly quiescent arms race. Affluent America can afford this no better than the frugal Soviets as McNamara openly admitted...
...report on the hippy culture-yet. "We are including some good artwork from the hippies," Yokel Says, "but whether or not we would like actually to write about he culture as well as the politics of the Left is purely a matter for discussion. Presently we can't afford to. Maybe someday...
Something must be done to stop the trend; we cannot afford to sit quietly as Harvard drifts into complacency. Last year, despite the efforts of a cadre of agitators, the best that happened was the near trampling of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
...García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food to eat, "protection" from the other prisoners, a few hours of privacy with a wife or girl friend. Many who can afford it simply buy their...