Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional services of a lawyer should not be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between client and lawyer." In a convention debate, backers of such services pointed out that they would make legal assistance possible for people who could not otherwise fully afford it. Replied Pennsylvania Attorney Andrew Hourigan Jr., chairman of the A.B.A. committee on unauthorized practice of law: "Simply because group legal services might be an improvement is no reason to rush posthaste into a major revision of ethical standards." Although Hourigan and his committee did not withdraw their opposition, legitimization...
Lawyers as individuals and through legal-aid societies have long served the poor." Now lawyers must think of how to go about providing their services to the middle ground of Americans "at a cost they can afford to pay." The most important thing, he said in summarizing the meeting, "is that the bar recognizes that we are living in a rapidly changing and demanding society. Our role is to be attuned to this social change...
...foundation, therefore, can often afford to pay a substantially higher price in acquiring businesses than a tax-paying enterprise. To eliminate this unfair advantage, the Treasury Department has recommended legislation requiring private foundations to dispose of substantial business interests which are unrelated to their exempt activities. Congress has not acted on the proposal...
...move by Eshkol's government towards an acceptance of a U.N. resolution which would take the Israelis back to their status ante bellum would be greeted with a great deal of unpopularity -- something the ancient regime can ill afford at this point...
Economically, the Israelis could not afford a long war because so much of their manpower was mobilized. But if the war was short it was nonetheless more vicious than the Sinai campaign of 1956. The few roads which cross the Sinai desert are lined with burnt-out trucks and tanks, while the Mitla Pass (a strategic pass through the mountains of Western Sinai near the Suez Canal) appears to be an enormous junk-heap of scrap metal. Although some of the damage to the seven Egyptian divisions stationed in the Sinai came from three Israeli armer divisions, most...