Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, most economists and sensible social reformers agree with Pres ident Johnson that the world's most affluent nation can afford to fight a war abroad and simultaneously raise its standards of life and opportunity at home. The $25 billion a year or more that the U.S. is pouring into Viet Nam could not in any case be simply redeployed from the prosecution of a war to the pacification of U.S. cities. Nonetheless, the instant switch is an appealing notion...
...that pact would almost certainly result in the fall of Sallal, and the Yemen Premier immediately let out a loud complaint. Big Brother, he wailed, had betrayed him. But Nasser had no other choice. So desperately close to ruin has the Israeli war left Egypt that he simply cannot afford the expense of keeping troops in Yemen. He can barely afford to keep them in Cairo...
...time, some of them almost all the time." That statement, at first startling but on reflection quite understandable, comes from a teacher named John Holt, whose new book, How Children Learn, is discussed in EDUCATION this week. Teacher Holt goes on to suggest that schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway...
...himself." Students should have to learn only those things that really interest them. This would not be much of a hazard, Holt suggests, since for most people, "the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn." He thinks schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway." Holt would bring objects that interest kids into the classroom, take students out often to visit places that fascinate them. He would place older children in the same classes with younger ones...
...about the only jewelry she wears is a man's pocket watch on a chain. "She just couldn't care less about clothes," says an old friend, who recalls that even in the days when she was winning her first awards she wore $7 dresses. She can afford more ex pensive clothes now, but she hates to get dressed up in them...